There have been numerous instances of untrustworthy concessions, lack of candor, misrepresentations of fact, inadequate investigation, and avoidance of hearings. The district attorney’s office vigorously defends its checkered concession program as a necessary corrective to past mistakes by prior administrations, as reported below.
In an extraordinary ruling from Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, if the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office wants to overturn a conviction in state court, the state Attorney General’s Office must be given the chance to review the case and make sure a proper investigation was done.The order comes as a King’s Bench petition, which is basically a mechanism for the high court to take over a case and review it. The case at hand involved Lavar Brown, a man convicted of killing two men in the early 2000s and sentenced to death row.
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