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Judge Blasts District Attorney's Office Over Discovery Issues In Court, Says Office Is Being Mismanaged

The San Francisco DA's Office is calling it "disappointing" that a judge would choose to air grievances with prosecutors in open court, but this judge in particular says he's done with what he calls the poor management of the DA's Office as a whole.

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Chesa Boudin's Dad Granted Clemency By Outgoing NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo

After nearly 40 years behind bars serving time for a botched armored truck robbery in which a security guard and two police officers were killed, 76-year-old David Gilbert has been granted clemency by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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DA Chesa Boudin Sues 'Ghost Gun' Sellers; Report Finds He's Prosecuting More Cases This Year

District Attorney Chesa Boudin got a writeup in the Times for charges he's bringing against three online retailers of "ghost guns" in California. And the Chronicle finds that he's charging more cases this year compared to his first year in office.

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DA's Office Announces Charges Against Man Accused Of Vandalizing, Burglarizing Dozens of Chinese-Owned Businesses

A San Francisco man stands accused of vandalizing 20 Chinese-owned businesses in the city, as well as seven others, and he faces burglary charges and hate-crime enhancements as well.

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Original Recall Chesa Boudin Effort Fails To Get Enough Signatures

Today is the signature deadline for the first Recall Chesa campaign, and they reportedly fell 1,700 signatures short of the number they needed.

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The New Yorker Makes the Case That Chesa Boudin Needs Savvy, Not Stats, to Win Over Critics

San Francisco's progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin is again garnering a national spotlight in a piece in The New Yorker that tries to parse our current moment with criminal justice reform, and the polarizing position he has landed in.

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West Portal Stalking Case In Which Charges Were Dropped Provides More Fodder For SF Criminal Justice Critics

A case involving a mentally ill man and a 15-year-old girl who says he stalked, grabbed, and generally terrified her one afternoon last year in West Portal is giving the Chronicle's Heather Knight more reason to rally critics of SF's criminal justice system.

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In Wake of Report About Re-Offenders, an SF Supervisor Pushes For More Reporting on Suspects Released Before Trial

Adding to the warring choruses about the state of San Francisco and crime, Supervisor Catherine Stefani appears to have taken her case to the Chronicle, which rolled with a fairly sensational headline about how half of all suspects granted pretrial release go on to reoffend.

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DA Chesa Boudin Takes Questions at Manny's, Compares Recall to 'Big Lie'

District Attorney Chesa Boudin told an audience of supporters at Manny's on Thursday that he "refuse[s] to be distracted" by the ongoing effort to recall him over what he says is a false perception of the reality of the city.

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Nuru Scandal Cont'd: Former Public Works Employee Arrested By DA For Allegedly Shady Merch Contract Worth $263K

The latest development in the now 18-month unfolding of both federal and local investigations into corrupt dealings at San Francisco City Hall is the arrest of a former high-ranking Department of Public Works official by the SF District Attorney's Office.

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Recall Chesa Boudin Campaign Tried to Advertise on Nextdoor, Ads Were Quickly Removed

One faction of the Recall Chesa Boudin movement bought roughly $2,000 in ads on Nextdoor, but the neighborhood-centric social network removed the ads and returned the payments.

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Brazen Walgreens Thief Charged With Hitting Eight Stores In One Month

A suspect who was arrested Saturday in connection with multiple Walgreens and CVS robberies — allegedly conducted in plain sight of staff and security guards — has been charged with 15 counts of robbery, grand theft, and burglary.

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Suspect In Stabbing of 94-Year-Old Woman Had 2016 Murder Charges Dismissed Due In Part to Miranda Issue

Daniel Cauich, the suspect in last week's random stabbing on Post Street, was released from jail in 2019 after serving three years pending trial for murder. The main reason: Cauich and his brother, who were both charged in the killing, were not properly Mirandized after their arrest.

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Another Attack On an Elderly Asian Person, Another Round of the Blame Game Between Police and DA

Wednesday's random stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman on her morning walk on Post Street has once again prompted finger-pointing among law enforcement, specifically after the suspect was revealed to be another repeat offender who's been in and out of the county jail in the last few years.

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Washington Post Calls Out ‘Inaccurate’ Reporting by Chesa Boudin’s Local Media Critics

The media fascination with Chesa Boudin regularly produces national headlines, but now at least one national news source is casting a skeptical eye on the local news coverage of the SF district attorney.

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Recall Chesa Effort Has Split Into Two Battling Factions, Both Lagging In Contributions

The effort to recall DA Chesa Boudin splits into two enemy groups that are taking public potshots at each other, while recall opponents have raised more than twice as much money as the recallers.

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DA Boudin Pushes Back on Police About Evidence Delay In Shooting Case Involving Murder Suspect Robert Newt

DA Chesa Boudin tried to make it clear to the Police Commission this week that blame for the release of Robert Newt last month should be focused on the police and lengthy delays in forensic evidence testing.

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Market Street Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder

54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.

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SF Man With Alleged Domestic Violence History Charged In Killing of Infant In His Care

A suspect with a history of prior arrests for domestic incidents has been arrested and charged in the April 20 death of a 7-month-old boy in San Francisco who had been left in his care.

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Second Group Emerges With Campaign to Recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin

While one group has already been campaigning to recall San Francisco's progressive district attorney just over a year after his swearing in, a second committee has formed with perhaps different political leanings than the first, but the same end goal.

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Fight Against Boudin’s Recall Gets $100,000 Gift From Gascón PAC

Remember George Gascón? Both SF district attorney Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles DA Gascón face recall efforts, a pro-Gascón PAC has made a lavish contribution to help Boudin.

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Burglaries Were Down Nationwide Last Year; In SF They Went Up 50%

San Francisco's no good terrible pandemic year was indeed different, crime-wise, than in most other cities in America. But it was a whole lot less violent, as it turns out.

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'60 Minutes+' Asks SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin About Crime, and Releasing Repeat Offenders

CBS News isn't doing any favors for San Francisco's national image with the piece that just went live on "60 Minutes+" on the Paramount+ app, which is ostensibly a profile of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

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A Third of All ‘Recall Chesa Boudin’ Donations Come From One Tech Donor

In yet another case of a recall campaign being largely financially dependent on an individual tycoon, a third of the money going to the Chesa Boudin ouster attempt is financed by “PayPal Mafia” investor David Sacks.

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SF Woman Horrified That Man Who Assaulted Her In September Was Back on Street and Allegedly Raped a Woman In November

A local news station in San Francisco has uncovered a story that will add fuel to the anger about lawlessness in the city and the DA's office's policies when it comes to freeing suspects from custody.

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