On July 12, 2018, Philadelphia real estate developer Sean Schellenger was stabbed to death by Michael White in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. The dead man was white, and his assailant was black. Immediately following the killing, White was charged with first degree murder. But over time, Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney, incrementally reduced the charge to voluntary manslaughter. And, following a listless courtroom presentation by Krasner’s office, a jury acquitted the defendant on the manslaughter charge, but found him guilty of tampering with evidence (based on his attempt to dispose of the bloody knife). Needless to say, the case and […]