SF Politics Chesa Boudin Declares He’s ‘Not Running for Office in 2024,’ Takes Job at UC Berkeley Think Tank It looks like the political equivalent of riding off into the sunset for former DA Chesa Boudin, as he’s starting up a UC Berkeley department called the Criminal Law & Justice Center.
SF News DA Will Indeed Drop Prosecution of Keita O’Neil Police Shooting Case, Says State Can Take It If They Want DA Brooke Jenkins has decided she’s dropping the charges against a former SFPD officer who shot and killed unarmed Keita O’Neil in 2017, but says AG Rob Bonta is free to prosecute it if he wants to.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cop Who Shot Keita O’Neil Wants Case Dismissed, Blames Chesa Gallo Winery is laying off more than 350 people, the Bored Ape company admits their NFTs have no copyrights, and the ex-SFPD officer who shot and killed Keita O’Neil wants the case dismissed on the eve of his first hearings.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin and His Supporters Seize On Revelation About Brooke Jenkins's Recall Payday: 'Integrity Is Central to the Job of DA' The dirty secret about District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's paid involvement in the campaign to oust her predecessor and former boss, Chesa Boudin, was bound to come out eventually, and it's sparking a lot of chatter.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Won't Run For DA Again In November, Citing Family Obligations; Won't Rule Out 2023 Run Probably wisely, recalled San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is going to sit out this year from campaigning and attempting to regain the DA's office, citing the need to spend more time with his family.
SF Politics New SF DA Brooke Jenkins Meets With Boudin's Staff, Asks to Review All Unclosed Plea Offers It's the first week of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's tenure in the SF DA's Office, and she has told the staff she wants to review all still-unclosed plea offers — and she says she may reconsider drug cases in particular, regardless of a defendant's immigration status.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Won't Say That He Won't Run Again For San Francisco DA In his first interview since being recalled in an election that was covered around the country, SF DA Chesa Boudin says he hasn't ruled anything out in terms of running for DA again.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin in Murder of Elderly Anza Vista Man, Packing Courtroom and Drawing Rally The January 2021 killing of 81-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee in San Francisco had its first preliminary hearing at the Hall of Justice Tuesday, with the victim’s loved ones and their supporters rallying outside beforehand.
SF Politics New York Media Already Has Undies In Bunch Over Tuesday's Boudin Recall Election New York City is 3,000 miles away, but its newspapers of record are all going full-bore with lengthy features obsessing over ‘what it all means’ that San Francisco is about to hold a DA recall election.
SF Politics In Completely Foregone Conclusion, New Supe Dorsey Endorses Recall of DA Boudin The new supervisor who was on the SFPD payroll up until last month has, very unsurprisingly, endorsed the recall of the district attorney whom the SFPD hates with a white-hot passion.
SF Politics Report: SFPD Refused to Participate in Quickly Burglary Ring Bust, Boudin Had to Rent His Own U-Haul New reporting on the DA's Office raid on a Tenderloin Quickly shop earlier this month alleges that police said “they were too busy” to assist in the bust, and that DA Boudin had to rent his own U-Haul to carry out the operation.
SF News Quickly Boba Shop Suspect In Stolen Goods Ring Had Already Been Arrested In 2019 For a Similar Scheme There are plenty of questions about the legal process on a suspect just charged with running a fencing operation from a Tenderloin Quickly storefront, as it turns out the suspect was already arrested and still awaiting trial for a 2019 case with the same charges.
SF News Yelp Reviewers Claimed For Years That Tenderloin Quickly Was Selling Stolen Goods, and Was Curiously 'Cash Only' A Larkin Street Quickly boba shop has been accused by the DA of trafficking stolen goods, but that allegation has been sitting in plain sight in their Yelp reviews, and draw your own conclusions on why the shop was “cash only.”
SF News SF Man Who Spent Last 32 Years In Prison Gets Conviction Overturned, Now Free Joaquin Ciria has always maintained his innocence in a 1990 murder, and today he is a free man, the first person exonerated by DA Boudin’s Innocence Commission.
SF Politics New Mailers From Pro-Haney PAC Attack Campos for Working for Boudin A new batch of attack-ad mailers from the California Association of Realtors — and not the Matt Haney campaign — says “We can’t trust Campos in the Assembly” because he worked on Chesa Boudin’s staff.
SF News Boudin and Gascón Take Legal Action Against Serial ADA Lawsuit-Filing Firm Going after alleged “Serial Filers” of ADA lawsuits, one of whom has filed 1,700 lawsuits himself, the SF and LA district attorneys have filed a state suit against the law firm churning out lawsuits against Chinese-owned businesses.
SF News Walgreens Shoplifter From Viral Video Pleads Guilty, Gets 16 Months In Prison The ride is over for the fellow who rode his bike into a Walgreens and gained viral video infamy for purloining a trash bag full of cosmetics, but his guilty plea and 16-month prison sentence are unlikely to satisfy DA Boudin’s critics.
SF Politics New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA's Office Drops Fourth Charge Against SFPD Officer The SF DA's Office is dropping the last charge against SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, Mayor London Breed said the city is "thriving" in her State of the City address, Point Reyes Station wants to fight light pollution.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Speaks After High-Profile Defeat in Prosecution of Officer for Police Beating After losing the trial in the first use-of-force case brought against an on-duty SFPD officer, DA Chesa Boudin says “You can’t be scared to lose,” and is still prosecuting cases against five other officers.
SF Politics Judge In SFPD Use-of-Force Trial Balks at Prosecution's Request for New Court Date, Sends Clear Message to DA The judge in the trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, a trial which ended Monday in a near complete acquittal, sounded less than patient with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday when a request was made for a new court date.
SF News [Update] Jury Reaches Verdict, Acquits SFPD Officer on Three Counts for Use of Force, Deadlocked on One Count The jury in the historic trial of a San Francisco police officer for the excessive use of force used to detain a suspect reached verdicts on three of four counts on Monday, acquitting Terrance Stangel of the charges, but they remained deadlocked on a final count.
SF Politics Boudin’s Office Releases 2021 Prosecution and Conviction Data, Opponents and Supporters Both Say ‘I Told You So’ District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office released an annual report on SF convictions and prosecutions, giving both sides grist on whether he’s prosecuting hard, or hardly prosecuting.
SF Politics Chinatown Plastic Bat Attack Victim Drops Lawsuit Against Chesa Boudin After explosive allegations against DA Chesa Boudin’s office wilted under scrutiny, a 69-year-old Vietnamese American man has dropped his lawsuit claiming that Boudin violated his rights, and both sides are taking conciliatory tones.
