The panel's creation was announced in April, around the time that some victims' relatives had criticized Krasner's office, saying they had not been consulted or even contacted about decisions and actions in open cases. In one instance, family members of a murder victim said prosecutors did not notify them before successfully arguing to have a convicted killer removed from death row. In another, relatives of Ryan Kelly, who was shot dead on Thanksgiving 2015 near his mother's Port Richmond home, said prosecutors presented a plea offer to the accused shooter in court without telling them.