Since his election, Larry Krasner has praised himself for his record exonerating individuals he has decided were wrongfully convicted. His office’s data dashboard contains a list of Philadelphia County “exonerations” with columns listing the District Attorney at the time of the alleged “wrongful conviction” and another listing the “Exonerating District Attorney”
My name appears on both lists.
Not surprisingly the name that appears most often in the “Exonerating District Attorney” column (a total of 25 times) is “Krasner”. When discussing his office’s work on conviction integrity, Krasner does not limit himself to praise of his own efforts. Like his emotional doppelgänger Donald Trump, Krasner’s self-proclaimed greatness is always tied to his predecessors’ “terribleness”’ Here he is on his office website commenting on the work of earlier prosecutors: “Prior to 2018, this office conducted no meaningful review of credible claims regarding unconstitutional or illegal investigations resulting in convictions. In fact, this office was more likely to defend the most problematic convictions every step of the way — no matter how clear the DNA test results or other exculpatory evidence.” (emphasis mine)
The National Registry of Exonerations explains that “an exoneration occurs when a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on new evidence of innocence.” Unlike Krasner, who declares each exoneree “innocent” or “likely innocent,” juries and judges in...
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