今年六月，随着联邦法院听证会的临近，费城地区检察官拉里·克拉斯纳手下的四名主管仔细审查了一起该办公室自2022年以来一直支持的谋杀案平反案件。联邦法官后来写道，他们“开始感到恐慌”。
As a federal court hearing approached this past June, four supervisors under Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner took a hard look at a murder-exoneration case the office had backed since 2022. They “started to panic,” a federal judge later wrote.
克拉斯纳办公室提交的一份支持丹尼斯·约翰逊（Dennis Johnson）获得新审判的文件存在重大事实错误。
A filing from Krasner’s office endorsing a new trial for Dennis Johnson, who is serving a life sentence, contained major factual errors. The prosecutor who wrote it resigned, and two weeks before the hearing the office abruptly withdrew its support for a new trial. That prompted the judge to hold hearings where key players in Krasner’s office testified about what went wrong.
撰写该文件的检察官随后辞职，而在听证会前两周，该办公室突然撤回了对新审判的支持。
A filing from Krasner’s office endorsing a new trial for Dennis Johnson, who is serving a life sentence, contained major factual errors. The prosecutor who wrote it resigned, and two weeks before the hearing the office abruptly withdrew its support for a new trial. That prompted the judge to hold hearings where key players in Krasner’s office testified about what went wrong.
这一举动促使法官举行听证会，克拉斯纳办公室的关键人物就事态如何失控进行了作证。
A filing from Krasner’s office endorsing a new trial for Dennis Johnson, who is serving a life sentence, contained major factual errors. The prosecutor who wrote it resigned, and two weeks before the hearing the office abruptly withdrew its support for a new trial. That prompted the judge to hold hearings where key players in Krasner’s office testified about what went wrong.
如今，这一丑闻正威胁着吞噬克拉斯纳——这位全国最杰出的检察官之一，并在费城引发连锁反应。
Now, the scandal threatens to engulf Krasner, one of the nation’s most prominent prosecutors, and is rippling through Philadelphia.