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Pennsylvania Supreme Court seeks ethics probe for leak of sealed document in AG case

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has referred to lawyer ethics officials the alleged leak of a sealed document that temporarily blocked charges against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

The apparent target is Kane lawyer Lanny Davis, report the Philadelphia Inquirer and PennLive.com. The document at issue—which has since been unsealed—blocked charges against Kane pending consideration of the attorney general’s challenge to a special prosecutor who investigated her in connection with a grand jury leak.

Davis told the Inquirer he released the document at a news conference after a reporter sent him a court order unsealing documents in the case. Davis says he assumed the document in question was unsealed. He also quibbles with calling his release of the document a leak.

“This is some definition of leak,” Davis told the Inquirer. “I did it on the record, during a press conference, with all of the media.”