SF Politics 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.
SF News 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.
SF Politics DA Boudin Faces Another Round of Outrage Over ‘Temper Tantrum’ Comment One out-of-context sentence from a New York Times interview is the latest fodder for right-wing media and the Recall Chesa crowd to throw, well, temper tantrums.
SF Politics Breed to Out-of-Town Criminals: 'Don't Come to Our City With All That Bulls**t' SF Mayor London Breed had some words of warning to criminals, particularly violent ones, on Wednesday as she announced a change in how law enforcement communicates about repeat offenders.
SF News SF District Attorney Will Not File Charges in Mission District Police Killing of Jesus Delgado-Duarte On Friday, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin chose not to file charges against the SFPD officers who fired at Jesus Delgado-Duarte back in March of 2018 at 21st and Capp streets; Duarte, who fired only once, was blasted by 99 bullets and died instantly.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Eight-Car Crash Near Lake Merced Was On Probation, Possibly Intoxicated, Driving Stolen Car, Arrested For Similar Crimes In December A man who's been charged with multiple crimes in connection with an eight-car crash Thursday morning near Lake Merced in San Francisco was on probation for grand theft, recently arrested for DUI, and was allegedly driving a car that was reported stolen out of San Jose.
SF News DA Files Manslaughter and DUI Charges In Fatal New Year's Eve Hit-and-Run District Attorney Chesa Boudin formally filed multiple felony charges on Monday against the 45-year-old man accused in a hit-and-run collision last week in SoMa that killed two women.
SF Politics SF Police Chief and District Attorney Insist They're Not Enemies, Chief Says They Don't Always Agree In a show of unity Wednesday on a live-streamed Zoom session, SF Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed recent charging decisions implicating SF police officers, and the growing role of the DA's Independent Investigations Bureau.
SF News SFPD Releases 911 Audio and Body Camera Footage From Fisherman's Wharf Beating Two days after the DA filed charges against an officer for an October 2019 baton beating of a domestic violence suspect, the SFPD has released audio from the 911 call that led to the officers' arrival at the scene, as well as body-worn camera footage from the incident.
SF News Attorney for SFPD Officer Charged In Beating Says DA 'Can't Get His Facts Straight' The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF DA Charges Officer In Fisherman's Wharf Beating DA Chesa Boudin has charged the SFPD officer who allegedly beat a Black man near Fisherman's Wharf last fall, the legal battle between Virgin Hotels and the owner of the hotel rages on, and a man on a scooter was shot while riding through SoMa.
SF News Grand Jury Indicts Rookie SFPD Officer Over December 2019 Shooting of Jamaica Hampton In the second instance of an SFPD officer facing charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting in just two weeks, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that a grand jury has returned an indictment of Officer Christopher Flores for the Dec. 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.
SF News DA Chesa Boudin Lobbying To Get Clemency for His Incarcerated Father The district attorney is making a renewed push for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to release his long-jailed father, as a COVID-19 outbreak hits the maximum security prison where he's incarcerated.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Files Manslaughter Charges Against Cop In 2017 Shooting For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
SF News Daughter and Son-in-Law Who Killed and Dismembered Elderly Outer Mission Man Get Light Sentences In Plea Deal Defense attorneys successfully argued that there was no evidence of malice before the killing, and prosecutors reportedly had difficulty establishing who did what to whom first, with the defense claiming self-defense.
SF News Another SF Lab Technician Arrested with Allegedly Lab-Stolen Meth Here we go again, as a this time a Medical Examiner lab analyst has been arrested with narcotics allegedly ripped off from his own lab, and as many as 2,500 cases could be tainted.
SF Politics DA Boudin Seeks Injunction To Force DoorDash To Make Its Drivers Employees Boudin had already sued DoorDash in June over classifying drivers as contractors, now he wants a court order demanding that they hire their drivers as employees before the October trial.
SF Politics DA Boudin Adopts Post-Apartheid-Inspired ‘Reconciliation Commission’ Led by Activist Shaun King Boudin joins district attorneys in Boston and Philly to “address the injustices of the past,” but the involvement of lightning-rod organizer Shaun King is leading to some questions.
SF Politics SF District Attorney to Stop Filing Charges In Cases That Rely on Testimony From Problematic Cops San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced a new policy on Monday aimed at correcting the wrongs of over-policing and unjust prosecutions of people of color.
SF News Boudin to Stop Prosecuting for Contraband Seized at Traffic Stops, End Sentence Enhancements SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin launched a bevy of new policy directives — among them the end of charging defendants for contraband procured during "pretextual" traffic stops — yesterday, aimed at reducing racial imbalances in our criminal justice system and mass incarceration.
SF News Chesa Boudin Withdraws Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Attacked SF Police Officer In December In a move bound to ruffle some feathers — one coming after Boudin effectively ended cash bails in San Francisco on Wednesday — the newly elected DA has chosen to hold off on the charges against a 24-year-old man accused of attacking an SF police officer in December.
SF News Chesa Boudin Lets Go Of At Least Six Prosecutors, Two Days After Being Sworn In Fresh off the heels of his packed swearing-in ceremony, San Francisco's newest district attorney is already shaking things up — or, rather, sweeping them away — firing at least six prosecutors yesterday afternoon.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Swearing-In Draws Progressive Icons, Video Address From Justice Sonia Sotomayor Danny Glover, Angela Davis, and the ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ Jimmy Fails were on hand, with Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor beamed in, as Chesa Boudin took the oath as San Francisco’s 30th district attorney.
SF Politics Get Ready for the Chesa Boudin Administration — He’s Sworn in as DA Wednesday The Democratic Socialist and son of incarcerated radical activists hopes to change the face of San Francisco law enforcement, starting at his 5:30 p.m. swearing-in Wednesday.
SF News Boudin Will Not Prosecute Prostitution, Public Camping, And Other 'Quality-Of-Life Crimes' Once Sworn In Freshly elected San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, after taking office in January, plans to stop the criminal prosecution of consenting sex workers, public campers ... and people peeing on the street.