Convicted Killer, Freed from Prison by Fetterman-Backed District Attorney, Now Wanted for Murder
A convicted killer is now wanted for another murder after he was freed from prison by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s (D) Conviction Integrity Unit, which has the backing of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
In 2021, Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit
got a judge to throw out the murder conviction against 32-year-old Jahmir Harris who served eight years in prison. Harris was convicted for the 2012 murder of 45-year-old Louis Porter whom he was accused of shooting in the head in front of his 5-year-old son in a Philadelphia parking lot just two days before Christmas.
According to prosecutors, Harris murdered Porter over a $3,900 drug debt.
Last year, though, Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit — which Fetterman
has called a “model” for the rest of Pennsylvania — helped get Harris’s conviction thrown out and he was subsequently freed from prison.
Now, Harris
is wanted by Philadelphia police after allegedly being linked to the shooting and killing of 50-year-old Charles Gossett last month.
Fetterman, running against Republican Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, has long praised Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit and has said the program should be implemented statewide to help free convicts from prison.
Convicted Killer, Freed by Fetterman-Backed DA, Now Wanted for Murder