PHILADELPHIA _ The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Friday rejected state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane's last-minute attempt to delay her perjury trial.
The decision means jury selection can begin Monday.
Kane is charged with perjury, obstruction and other crimes.
This week, she filed a petition with the Supreme Court, requesting that the charges against her be dropped.
Montgomery County prosecutors urged the Supreme Court to dismiss the motion, calling it a "a thinly veiled eleventh-hour attempt to stall the wheels of justice."
Kane is accused of illegally leaking secret grand jury information to embarrass another prosecutor, and later lying about it under oath.
Kane said that the charges against her should be dropped because a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the case did hot have the authority to issue subpoenas and act as a prosecutor. The issue "threatens the constitutional rights of the commonwealth's chief law enforcement officer," her lawyers wrote in their petition Monday.
Kane had made the argument before to the Supreme Court, which ruled last year that a judge's appointment of a special prosecutor was appropriate, even though no state law explicitly authorized it.
Gerald Shargel, Kane's defense lawyer, could not be reached for comment.
