Former Pennsylvania AG Kane due in court for alleged probation violation

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s former prime legislation enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative recordsdata and mendacity about it, is due in court docket Monday, going through the prospect of extra time behind bars after she was arrested for drunken driving in March.

Kathleen Kane, the primary lady and first Democrat to be elected lawyer common within the state, awaits a listening to in Montgomery County Courtroom on an alleged probation violation. She’s going to seem earlier than the identical decide who sentenced her within the authentic leak case.

As soon as a rising star in Pennsylvania politics, Kane resigned as lawyer common after being convicted in 2016 of perjury, obstruction and different counts for leaking grand jury materials to embarrass a rival prosecutor. She served eight months of a 10-to-23-month sentence earlier than being launched in 2019.

On March 12, police in Scranton have been referred to as to the scene of a two-car crash and stated they discovered Kane behind the wheel of an Audi.

Kane instructed responding officers she was a delegated driver, however surveillance video confirmed Kane herself had been consuming alcohol at a Scranton restaurant shortly earlier than the crash, in keeping with an affidavit.

Kane had watery, bloodshot eyes and slurred her phrases — police stated she had bother saying the phrase “designated” — and failed a discipline sobriety check, the paperwork stated.

Kane was charged with drunken driving and careless driving. 4 days later, a Montgomery County decide issued a bench warrant for her arrest on the alleged probation violation. Kane is on probation till October 2025.

Kane, 55, has been jailed at Montgomery County Correctional Facility exterior Philadelphia since April 29.