BUCKS COUNTY COURIER / AP: Any day now, a grand jury could render an opinion on whether Attorney General Kathleen Kane or anyone in her office should face charges for allegedly breaching secrecy laws.
Whatever it decides, the decision will be the result of s a process that is little used in Pennsylvania — and is piquing the collective curiosity of the state’s legal community.
For one thing, the prosecutor running the grand jury — a secrecy-cloaked investigative body of regular citizens — is a court-appointed official commissioned in secret. And there is no law that explicitly guides or empowers the court’s appointment of a prosecutor… (more)
