Pa.’s top prosecutor gets felony count of perjury
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor has taken on the new role of criminal defendant.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane was arraigned Saturday afternoon in suburban Philadelphia on charges including a felony count of perjury. She did not enter a plea during the brief proceedings via closed-circuit television and did not speak other than to respond to the judge “yes” or “no.”
Magisterial District Judge Cathleen Kelly Rebar set a preliminary hearing for Aug. 24 and set bail for $10,000 unsecured bond.
Kane is accused of leaking secret grand jury information through an operative to a newspaper reporter as payback for a former state prosecutor she thought made her look bad, and then lying about her actions under oath.
Prosecutors say she also enlisted aides to spy on office employees and keep tabs on a grand jury probe into the leak.
The case against Kane, 49, a political newcomer in 2012 when she became the first woman and first Democrat elected as Pennsylvania attorney general, could end her status as the state’s highest-ranking female officeholder.
College football player shot by Texas police
ARLINGTON, Texas – Police said the suburban Dallas officer who shot and killed a college football player during a burglary call at a car dealership had never fired his weapon in the line of duty before.
Arlington police officer Brad Miller is on administrative leave after the early Friday shooting.
Police Sgt. Paul Rodriguez said Saturday that Miller and his training officer were the only two officers known to have directly engaged Christian Taylor, the 19-year-old Arlington native who was a sophomore at Angelo State University in West Texas. Taylor was unarmed. Other officers had set up a perimeter around the car dealership where the incident occurred.
Police say they were responding to a report of a burglary at the Classic Buick GMC in Arlington, 10 miles west of Dallas.
Associated Press
