Prosecutors spoke of Monday night's verdict against Kathleen Kane as if they had ended one of the darkest eras in the history of the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office.

"It's been a difficult time... for a lot of very good people that work in the Attorney General's office, from the prosecutors, to the agents, to the administrative staff," said Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele.

"They've had a difficult time...with this cloud that's hung over the office," Steele continued.

"We hope that this puts some closure on things, and hopefully people can move forward and get back to doing the business of the Commonwealth and seeking justice."

Kane was found guilty of all nine charges lodged against her as part of a political corruption case stemming from an increasingly bitter feud with a rival from former Attorney General Tom Corbett's administration.

Already suspended from the practice of law, Kane now faces the possibility of some jail time for her convictions, most of which stem from her role in an alleged 2014 leak of secret grand jury material, and subsequent efforts to cover it up.

Steele's co-counsel for the trial, Bucks County prosecutor Michelle Henry, spoke from an even more personal standpoint about the prosecution of the state's first elected female attorney general.

"There are great men and women that work in the Office of Attorney General - great prosecutors, great agents, great support staff - and they have had to suffer through what this defendant has done. Not just to them, but to the citizens of this Commonwealth.

"And I am just glad to see that the end is finally in sight for them, and for the citizens... because it's been a long time that they have been suffering. And the jury listened to the evidence and they got it right."

If the prosecutors were talking about a potential Kane resignation, however, that was not happening just yet.

Kane's defense attorney Gerald Shargel said his client will take some time to review her options and legal precedents, and then act.

"That issue will be dealt with in the next several days," Shargel said.

According to recent precedent in Pennsylvania, Kane could resign quickly, or wait until she is sentenced, which trial Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy said Monday night should happen within 90 days.

Meanwhile, as calls for an immediate resignation mounted Monday night from Gov. Tom Wolf and senior legislative leaders, Kane's First Deputy, Bruce Castor, said he would address the operational issues from inside the OAG on Tuesday.

Kane left the courtroom with no comment after the 9 p.m. verdict, in which jurors concluded that she had a steering role in a plot to leak secret grand jury information to embarrass her predecessors' top prosecutors.

That aspect of the case, a law enforcement official using her powers to abuse the law, seemed to stick in the craw of the prosecutors.

"I'm offended by her crimes as a prosecutor," Henry said. "What she did while she was the Attorney General - the fact that she would commit criminal acts while she's the top prosecutor - is a disgrace."

Kane's attorney, Shargel, seemed to discount the verdict on the grounds that much of Kane's preferred defense - that she was being punished by a male-dominated justice system because of her resoluteness in ferreting out sexist and racist emails - was ruled out of bounds for this trial in pre-trial proceedings.

And he promised a vigorous set of appeals.

"The verdict, a conviction on all counts, was a crushing blow. I'm not going to say otherwise. But we have not lost our resolve," Shargel said.

"We will continue this fight because we believe our client has been wrongfully accused of misconduct... We have been denied the opportunity to mount a full defense, but we firmly believe that day will come."

The six-male, six-female jury reached its verdict after about four hours of deliberation, a period interrupted once by a series of questions for legal clarifications and hard copies of some exhibits.

Kane - while clearly more anxious that she had appeared during most of the trial - betrayed no outward emotion when the verdict rendered, sitting silently in her chair with her gaze fixed on the forewoman.

Steele demurred Monday when asked whether he will seek prison time for Kane, 50, for whom the trial's outcome was the latest fall in a dizzying descent from her recent perch as the first woman and Democrat to be elected as Pennsylvania's Attorney General.

He suggested that will depend on a review of applicable sentencing guildelines, Kane's own pre-sentencing investigation, and possibly, Kane's own decision about a resignation.

Maximum sentences for perjury, by state law, are three-and-a-half to seven years in prison. But state sentencing guidelines for first-time offenders call for much lower sentences, and can leave the door open to probation.

"We're going to evaluate that," Steele said. "There's a lot of considerations here.... We'll have to see what happens going forward here, because that could dictate what we ask for."