Margiotti Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

We assume — as fairly we must in the absence of evidence to the contrary — that neither the District Attorney of Allegheny County nor the Attorney General of the Commonwealth has been guilty of any improper motivations in the performance of their respective official duties in connection with the events giving rise to the present controversy. The question for this Court to determine is whether statements of the District Attorney, his actions, failure to act, delays in action, or conduct in general, however free from any purposeful wrongdoing, justified the…