District Attorney Larry Krasner. Read more Jose F. Moreno / Staff Photographer

by Chris Palmer Published Dec. 11, 2025, 12:55 p.m. ET

A veteran lawyer in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has been disbarred in the region’s federal courts after a panel of judges concluded he “lied repeatedly” while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man who killed an East Mount Airy couple in their home and left their infant daughter inside to die.

Paul George , an assistant district attorney who handles appellate cases, was a key player in his office’s attempts to have Robert Wharton’s death penalty reversed so he could serve a life sentence instead.

U.S. District Judge Mitchell Goldberg denied that request , but not before finding that District Attorney Larry Kras

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