The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is the only appellate court with the authority to review a Philadelphia trial judge’s controversial decision to replace the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office with a special prosecutor in a probation violation matter, the state Superior Court has ruled, more than a year after the trial court’s order was entered.

In a precedential Monday opinion in Commonwealth v. Mayfield, a three-judge Superior Court panel led by Judge Susan Peikes Gantman unanimously ruled to transfer the appeal to the Supreme Court, saying the justices have “exclusive jurisdiction over this case because it involves the supersession of a DA by the trial court.”

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