PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: ….[Attorney General Kathleen] Kane, in an email to reporters, contended that she was within her rights to release the emails between a Northumberland County judge, his lawyers, two reporters and a former state prosecutor because they were no longer private after they were “captured” by an Office of Attorney General server.
“That statement is wrong,” Beemer wrote in the memo. Executive Deputy Attorneys General James A. Donahue III, Robert A. Mulle and Lawrence Cherba signed the memo.
“The Office of Attorney General is bound by the Rules of Professional Conduct, various statutes and other legal privileges to keep all communications with clients and co-counsel, related to grand jury matters, and even communications with opposing counsel, confidential,” the memo states.
“Communications involving victims, witnesses and criminal justice agencies similarly are not public, and their disclosure could compromise prosecutions,” it states. “The Office of Attorney General, its support staff and its investigators must maintain their confidentiality obligations.”… (more)
