in pennsylvania have to run for office judge leon tucker is the only judge that has heard this case who is not funded by the fraternal order of police and what he concluded after two years of arduous deliberations was that the judge involved in hearing and reviewing them is appellate requests and hearing. was biased he had a conflict of interest and of course he voted against me as. requests for a hearing and that and the issues he presented during one of those hearings essentially ronak a steel had been named man of the year by the fraternal order of police his campaign to become judge of the pennsylvania supreme court was funded by the fraternal order of police he had also been previously the elected d.a. of philadelphia and while he was da of philadelphia he is quoted as saying to the then governor of philadelphia that he the governor should send a clear and dramatic message to cop killers that the death sentence actually means something now let me give you a sense of what that means there were only two or three quote unquote cop killers in philadelphia we don't know the names of