Attorney General Kathleen Kane has been ordered to appear Thursday in court to submit to questioning by defense counsel for convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky over a statement she made accusing the judge who oversaw the grand jury that investigated Sandusky of colluding to leak secret information to the press.

On Oct. 29, Senior Judge John Cleland, overseeing an appeals hearing in the Sandusky case, ordered Kane to submit a sealed brief by 10 a.m. this morning showing why the statement she released last week does not involve the Sandusky case.

In an order published this afternoon, Cleland said Kane did file a timely response, but that it failed to answer the questions he had asked. Because Kane's response said “she has 'no knowledge at this time of any email that proves such leak(s),'” Cleland said the reply “may not directly address the terms of the order.”