PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A former Philadelphia assistant district attorney testified Friday that she was told to side with a defendant as they appealed a murder conviction in Federal court at the direction of her boss, a top official within the office.
Judge Paul Diamond called the evidentiary hearing because the District Attorney’s Office agreed to overturn a 2009 murder conviction and then recanted; the judge is trying to figure out what happened and why.
The DA assigned to handle that appeal was Jaclyn Mason, who was with the office’s Federal Litigation Unit until she resigned earlier this year because she “refused to participate in a cover-up for the four supervisors.”…