Former Larry Krasner supervisor suspended for three years after misleading judge in death penalty case
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found former Law Division chief Nancy Winkelman “knowingly made misrepresentations” in connection with efforts to vacate the death sentence of convicted murderer Robert Wharton. “We do not credit her testimony that there is no such policy.”Advertisement The panel issued its recommendation on Oct. Wharton was convicted of the 1984 murders of Bradley and Ferne Hart, whom prosecutors said he strangled and drowned after terrorizing their family for months over a disputed debt.
- ▪District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found former Law Division chief Nancy Winkelman “knowingly made misrepresentations” in connection with efforts to vacate the death sentence of convicted murderer Robert Wharton.
- ▪“We do not credit her testimony that there is no such policy.”Advertisement The panel issued its recommendation on Oct.
- ▪Wharton was convicted of the 1984 murders of Bradley and Ferne Hart, whom prosecutors said he strangled and drowned after terrorizing their family for months over a disputed debt.
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A former supervisor in Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office was suspended from practicing in federal court for three years after a disciplinary panel found she knowingly misled a judge while seeking to overturn a death sentence.In an October order that remained under seal until this week, a three-judge disciplinary panel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found former Law Division chief Nancy Winkelman “knowingly made misrepresentations” in connection with efforts to vacate the death sentence of convicted murderer Robert Wharton.
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