Court upholds conviction of anti-gun ex Pennsylvania attorney general

By Chris Eger

Kathleen G. Kane is led out of the Montgomery County Courthouse in handcuffs by sheriff’s deputies in 2016 (Photo: Clem Murray/Philly.com)
A Superior Court has affirmed the felony conviction of former Pennsylvania state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who came to office with the support of gun control groups.
A unanimous three-judge panel dismantled the logic behind Kane’s appeal on a host of perjury, obstruction and conspiracy convictions late last month, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. In the tribunal’s 32-page ruling, the court said Kane’s arguments that prosecutors had vindictively or selectively tried her case did not hold legal water with Superior Court Judge Anne Lazarus at times characterizing the logic in the appeal as “specious” and “meritless.”
Kane, 51, was both the first woman and first Democrat elected to Pennsylvania’s Attorney General’s office when she defeated her Republican opponent in 2012 in a narrowly decided race. A former Lackawanna County prosecutor, she worked for the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and was in turn endorsed by former President Bill Clinton.
In 2015, she lost her law license and was convicted the next year of illegally leaking grand jury records and then lying about it, receiving a sentence of 10 to 23 months in prison, which

Source: Guns.com