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Common
08-15-2016, 08:54 PM
First ive heard of this, sitting state attorney general convicted of all 9 counts.


The Latest on the perjury and obstruction trial of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (all times local):9:40 p.m.
Pennsylvania's governor is renewing his call for the state's attorney general to resign now that she's been convicted of all nine charges against her in a perjury and obstruction case related to a grand jury leak.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf calls it a "sad day" for Pennsylvania after Monday night's verdict. He says "there should be no question" that Democrat Kathleen Kane should resign immediately.

Kane is the first Democrat and first woman elected to the office. She has vowed to appeal.
Jurors agreed with prosecutors Kane leaked information about a 2009 grand jury probe to embarrass a rival prosecutor.
Kane doesn't have to resign immediately. She's not running for a second term. A new attorney general will be elected in November and sworn in Jan. 17.
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9:20 p.m.
A judge overseeing the perjury trial of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she will jail Kane if she sees any sign of witness retaliation following Kane's felony perjury conviction.
The judge also suggested Kane may be a flight risk and ordered her to surrender her passport Monday night.
The judge says it concerns her Kane left her office in chaos to go to Haiti for a week with her sister and other office employees. She says Kane left no one "watching the store."
Kane remains on personal recognizance bail pending a sentence expected within 90 days.

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2016/08/15/the-latest-closing-arguments-held-in-attorney-general-trial-n2205255

exotix
08-15-2016, 08:58 PM
*Breaking*

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Tahuyaman
08-15-2016, 10:24 PM
Yawn.....

donttread
08-16-2016, 07:18 AM
First ive heard of this, sitting state attorney general convicted of all 9 counts.


The Latest on the perjury and obstruction trial of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (all times local):9:40 p.m.
Pennsylvania's governor is renewing his call for the state's attorney general to resign now that she's been convicted of all nine charges against her in a perjury and obstruction case related to a grand jury leak.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf calls it a "sad day" for Pennsylvania after Monday night's verdict. He says "there should be no question" that Democrat Kathleen Kane should resign immediately.

Kane is the first Democrat and first woman elected to the office. She has vowed to appeal.
Jurors agreed with prosecutors Kane leaked information about a 2009 grand jury probe to embarrass a rival prosecutor.
Kane doesn't have to resign immediately. She's not running for a second term. A new attorney general will be elected in November and sworn in Jan. 17.
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9:20 p.m.
A judge overseeing the perjury trial of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she will jail Kane if she sees any sign of witness retaliation following Kane's felony perjury conviction.
The judge also suggested Kane may be a flight risk and ordered her to surrender her passport Monday night.
The judge says it concerns her Kane left her office in chaos to go to Haiti for a week with her sister and other office employees. She says Kane left no one "watching the store."
Kane remains on personal recognizance bail pending a sentence expected within 90 days.

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2016/08/15/the-latest-closing-arguments-held-in-attorney-general-trial-n2205255

I guess the founders of our nation and our states had too much of a sense of honor to ever consider that convicted public officials would not automatically step down. But we need a "you're fired" clause.