Most of the mainstream media isn't spending much effort to cover the slow-rolling collapse of Soros-prosecutor District Attorney Larry Krasner. 

At least I HOPE it will be a collapse, as judges turn on Krasner not so much for his soft-on-crime policies, about which they can do little directly, but for his office's illegal tactics used to help convicted murderers get out of jail. 

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I wrote about decision #1 yesterday, in which the Democrat-dominated Pennsylvania Supreme Court blasted Krasner's office for lying to the courts about deficiencies in trials for convicted murderers, conceding—falsely—that prior D.A.'s had committed errors (or worse) in pursuing convictions of murderers. 

By doing so, they gave what amounted to get-out-of-jail tickets to murderers. With convictions vacated, Krasner's office did not give up the right to retry the cases, but it's pretty hard to expect that an office that committed what amounted to perjury to help convicts overturn their convictions would then pursue the subsequent cases with vigor. At best, they purposely helped the defense and endangered cases that were won; at worst, they decided to just let guilty people go free. 

The Supreme Court was not amused, and essentially defanged Krasner's office, allowing the Attorney General of Pennsylvania to intervene in cases as required. 

In a forceful and scolding opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office misled the courts, “violated its duty of candor,” and submitted false statements when asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.

In the opinion released Tuesday, Justice Kevin Dougherty wrote that prosecutors’ pattern of misleading judges in seeking to overturn murder convictions is so troubling and recurrent that, going forward, before Krasner’s office seeks such relief, judges must notify the state attorney general’s office and allow it to review the case.

The decision amounted to one of the most scathing rebukes yet of Krasner’s efforts to revisit decades-old convictions, and arrives amid intensifying scrutiny of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and appeals division, whose handling of post-conviction cases has drawn criticism from judges in both state and federal court.

Just last week, Krasner’s office reversed course in a separate murder case, writing in a federal court filing that one of its prosecutors had made “material misstatements” and submitted “legally erroneous” statements when seeking to overturn a man’s murder conviction. The office sought to withdraw its recommendation to grant the defendant a new trial.

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This decision is, as far as I can tell, one of the most scathing rebukes of a District Attorney in memory. It's pretty shocking, actually. The Justices spared no mercy to Krasner and company, and with good reason. 

First, the issue is a state post conviction relief statute that allows certain defendants who are wrongfully convicted to get relief. What happened here is the Philadelphia DA’s office under Larry Krasner’s abused it by repeatedly making misrepresentations to the court.

— Abhi Kambli (@AbhiKambli1984) June 17, 2026

Now comes round two: a federal court just sanctioned one of Krasner's former attorneys who was in charge of this program, barring her for three years from cases before the court. 

Nancy Winkelman was suspended for three years by a panel of federal judges who found that she was complicit in efforts to mislead a federal judge while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man convicted of killing an East Mount Airy couple in the 1980s and allow him to serve life in prison instead.

The ruling, made public this week, adds to the mounting judicial scrutiny of post-conviction work in Krasner’s office. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court imposed remarkable new restrictions on prosecutors’ efforts to reverse potentially problematic convictions.

In a forceful and scolding opinion, the high court said Krasner’s office misled judges, submitted false statements, and “violated its duty of candor” in asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.

The court wrote that prosecutors’ actions in the case were part of a troubling pattern of conduct in seeking to overturn murder convictions and ordered that, going forward, the state attorney general’s office must be asked to review and weigh in on all such cases.

The panel of federal judges, in ordering Winkelman’s suspension, echoed some of those concerns.

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Echoed? Perhaps. Or even further, given that one attorney got disbarred for lying to the court, and now another, who has left the D.A.'s office, has been kicked out of any work before the court and may face a similar fate., Lying to the court is a big deal, not that Krasner thinks so. He is backing her. 

Krasner said in a statement Wednesday night that Winkelman is an exceptional attorney who left a lucrative private law practice to serve the public. He said she always showed “exceptional competence and integrity and contributed mightily to needed reform.”

“On the eve of Juneteenth,” he said, “we should all remember that reform is necessary in every era. And that those who bring needed reform sometimes are made to pay a price.”

The three-judge panel, in a ruling issued in March and unsealed this week, said Winkelman and a subordinate, former assistant district attorney Paul George, misled a federal judge by misrepresenting parts of the case while attempting to reverse the death sentence of Robert Wharton.

Wharton was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1984 strangulation and drowning deaths of Bradley and Ferne Hart inside their East Mount Airy home.

The jury found that Wharton, angry over a disputed debt, spent months terrorizing the family before he forced his way inside the home at knifepoint and killed the couple. Afterward, he turned off the heat, leaving the couple’s seven-month-old baby, Lisa, to freeze to death — but she survived.

Decades later, prosecutors in Krasner’s office, in seeking to vacate his death sentence, suggested in court that the victims’ family backed their effort. But it was later discovered that they had consulted only one relative and never contacted Lisa Hart-Newman, the couple’s surviving daughter, who strongly opposed the move.

George later acknowledged that was a mistake, and U.S. District Judge Mitchell Goldberg ordered Krasner to write apology letters to the Harts’ relatives.

Goldberg, who denied the request to reduce Wharton’s sentence, later said George’s and Winkelman’s review of the case was “patently deficient,” and that they violated federal rules of procedure in a manner that was “egregious” and “exceptional.”

The two prosecutors then faced federal disciplinary proceedings to examine whether they’d been intentionally deceptive.

Last year, the three-judge panel found that George had lied to Goldberg about key facts, “flouted the interests of the public and the victims’ families,” and acted as the “quarterback” of efforts by the district attorney’s office to undo or undermine all death penalty cases.

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Apparently, among the "needed reforms" Krasner refers to, letting convicted murderers escape punishment by lying to courts is on the top of the list. 

Two courts so far have made clear that Krasner's office is not only pursuing bad policies, which could be "justified" by the fact that Krasner was elected, but also willing to break the law to do so in the name of "reform." 

George, 75, was disbarred in federal court. He has denied the accusations and filed an appeal. His attorneys said his disbarment was “highly disproportionate and offends basic tenets of justice.” Krasner also defended George’s work and said he believed the appeals court would find that the opinion criticizing George was filled with “factually and legally incorrect” statements.

The panel’s probe into Winkelman’s conduct continued, and the judges said they determined she “was willfully blind to, and complicit in,” George’s misrepresentations to Goldberg.

Winkelman, the judges said, “knowingly made misrepresentations” as part of the district attorney’s office “policy of vacating all death sentences.”

Krasner and his staff have long denied that the office has any such policy.

But the panel appeared to reject that, writing, “We do not credit [Winkelman’s] testimony that there is no such policy.”

Does this mean that Krasner's office is in shambles and defanged? Not at all, at least until he gets booted by the voters. It simply limits the scope of his powers in certain areas, and shows that if his office violates the law, his lawyers can be subject to serious sanctions. 

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He still has wide prosecutorial discretion. He just has to be more careful about how he uses it. Such as not lying to the court, which one assumes is the minimum possible standard. There's a lot of room for mischief beyond that. 

Krasner, who has been the D.A. since 2018, was just reelected last year, and won't face the voters until 2030. And given that he received more than 75% of the vote, the chances of him being booted by them are close to nil. 

It's shocking to see that people tolerate this, but they do, and even embrace it. Voters in urban areas keep voting for their destruction, seemingly reveling in the fact that they can implement leftist policies in our most important cities. 

One hopes there will be a backlash. Even San Francisco found a point where the voters said: "Too far." Whether and when that will happen here is impossible to predict. 

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