{"id":2727,"date":"2026-07-17T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:11:29","slug":"da-larry-krasners-office-asks-court-to-throw-out-ags-office-appeal-of-overturned-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"DA Larry Krasner\u2019s office asks court to throw out AG\u2019s Office appeal of overturned convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office has asked a state appeals court to block the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office from reopening a case that freed three men who spent nearly 30 years in prison for murder, saying state officials are overstepping their authority.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2726\">Men who posed as cops during botched highway robbery will face trial in Chester County<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The request is the latest chapter in a legal fight over the scope of the attorney general\u2019s newly expanded power in Philadelphia post-conviction cases. The dispute could determine whether the office can step in only before a judge acts \u2014 or whether it can challenge closed cases that are still within the window for appeal.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer Schultz vacated the convictions of Marc Brittingham, Jermal Shuler, and Rasheed Turner in the 1997 killing of Essie Mae Thomas in May, after Philadelphia prosecutors and defense attorneys presented newly uncovered evidence that she said undermined confidence in the jury\u2019s verdict. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The district attorney\u2019s office declined to retry the men, and they were released from prison after 28 years.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Weeks later, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a landmark decision expanding the attorney general\u2019s role in Philadelphia post-conviction cases, state prosecutors sought to intervene and appeal Schultz\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In a motion filed Friday, the district attorney\u2019s office said state prosecutors are twisting the high court\u2019s decision and trying to bypass longstanding rules.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The decision gives the attorney general\u2019s office the chance to weigh in before a judge grants a request supported by prosecutors to change a past conviction or sentence. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But Schultz issued her ruling in the men\u2019s case weeks before the high court\u2019s decision, and the window for state intervention had already closed, prosecutors Matthew Stiegler and Rebecca McDonald wrote in Friday\u2019s filing.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The district attorney\u2019s office argued that Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday knew this to be true, because he had said so an interview with The Inquirer. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In that interview, Sunday said that cases in which people have already been released from prison \u201care done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2724\">A Phillies fan wanted a souvenir ticket for the All-Star Game. He shared the \u2018physical memento\u2019 with other fans, too.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Attorneys for Brittingham, Shuler, and Turner made similar arguments in separate filings. They have also argued that reopening the case would unfairly upend the lives the men have begun rebuilding since their release.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The men were convicted of murder in 1998, a year after Thomas, 73, was found stabbed to death in her North Philadelphia home. But the testimony of the lone witness who placed them at the scene was discredited after new evidence upended Thomas\u2019 time of death. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A spokesperson for the attorney general\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In earlier court filings, the attorney general\u2019s office has taken a different view, writing that the high court\u2019s decision gave state prosecutors the right to independently review Philadelphia cases \u2014 even if a judge ruled before the office had an opportunity to participate. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>And in his interview with the Inquirer, Sunday also said his office would \u201chave to take a look\u201d at \u201ccases that are still going through the appellate process.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Philadelphia prosecutors contend that the Supreme Court has already rejected that reasoning, citing past decisions in which justices said that a case is closed with a judge\u2019s final order \u2014 regardless of whether the deadline to appeal has expired.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The attorney general\u2019s office has not challenged the newly discovered evidence that prompted the district attorney\u2019s office to support vacating the convictions. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>That evidence included information about the disciplinary history of Bennett Preston, a former assistant medical examiner whose trial testimony about Thomas\u2019 time of death helped to corroborate the account of the only witness who linked the men to the killing. Two independent forensic pathologists later concluded Preston had incorrectly estimated when Thomas died. The experts said Thomas was likely killed as many as two days later than Preston had said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>State prosecutors, however, said they found \u201ctroubling inconsistencies\u201d between the findings of Preston and the other pathologists, and believe the case warrants review.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2722\">A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home contained \u2018alien world chemistry,\u2019 a new study says<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office appealed the case of three men who were freed from prison after 28 years in what local prosecutors now say was a wrongful conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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