Ferber v. City of Philadelphia

PELLEGRINI, Judge.

“Factually, this case presents a Kafkaesque nightmare of the sort which we normally would characterize as being representative of the so-called justice system of a totalitarian state. Unfortunately, and shamefully, as the trial evidence showed, it happened here in Philadelphia.”

That is how Judge John W. Herron of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court), in a well-reasoned and thorough opinion, described the wrongful conviction of Neil Ferber (Ferber) on two counts of murder in the first degree and his sentencing to death as a result. Nonetheless, even…