In a Feb. 24 order, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to appoint a special master to probe into whether the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is conflicted out of handling the appeal of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal because of work District Attorney Larry Krasner and others in the office previously did in support of Abu-Jamal.

But while the rare grant of a King’s Bench petition filed by Maureen Faulkner, the widow of slain police officer Daniel Faulkner, was significant, the second sentence of the order, denying the District Attorney’s Office’s attempt to withdraw an exhibit from its response to the petition, quietly highlighted what may prove to be an important aspect of the dispute.

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