Philadelphia (KYW Newsradio) — A Philadelphia Common Pleas judge had harsh words for District Attorney Larry Krasner Thursday in denying a right-to-know request of a former assistant in his office.
Judge Anne Marie Coyle ruled in favor of former assistant DA Beth McCaffrey, whom Krasner’s office accused of withholding evidence in the murder case of Dontia Patterson when Krasner sought to overturn Patterson’s conviction in 2018.
“The accusations leveled against you had no good faith basis,” Coyle told McCaffrey in court. “They were maliciously intended. They were the product of the perfect storm of political puffery, for lack of a better term. There is no evidence in this record that would remotely justify the accusation of prosecutorial misconduct against you.”…