SF News CA State Treasurer Fiona Ma's Sexual Harassment Trial, Set to Begin Tuesday, Postponed Ma is fighting accusations of sexual harassment from a former employee, who says she exposed herself on a work trip, but she has called the incidents "non-sexual."
SF News Theranos Exec Sunny Balwani's Fraud Trial Kicks Off Just In Time for Hulu's Elizabeth Holmes Series 'The Dropout' Hulu's new series about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos disaster, The Dropout, premieres Thursday. And then next week, Holmes's former lover and business partner, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, heads to trial.
SF News Jurors Hear Garcia Zarate Confession For First Time In Steinle Murder Trial Audio excerpts from about four and a half hours of the interrogation of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate during the early morning hours of July 2, 2015 were played for the jury in the
SF News Police Who Responded To Kate Steinle Shooting Testify In Third Day Of Trial The second and third day of the Kate Steinle murder trial brought witness testimony from those who saw the shooting and its aftermath, and the police officers who first responded to the emergency
SF News Day One Of Kate Steinle Murder Trial Featured Emotional Witness Testimony From Steinle's Father The national spotlight returns to San Francisco and the trial of an undocumented immigrant that became a flashpoint in the debate over immigration and sanctuary city policies. Monday was the first official day
SF News Potential Jurors For Kate Steinle Murder Trial Instructed To Leave Immigration Debate 'Off The Table' The jury selection process in the case of Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate's alleged murder of Kate Steinle has crossed another milestone today, as prospective jurors sat before a San Francisco Superior Court judge for
SF News Trial In Bloody Quintuple Murder From 2012 Begins Today Five years after his arrest, Binh Thai Luc, the prime suspect in a quintuple murder that's been called one of the worst mass slayings in San Francisco's history, finally stands trial. On Tuesday,
SF News Testimony Reveals More Sad, Grim Details In Murder Of 23-Year-Old Backpacker Audrey Carey Further preliminary hearing testimony on Monday from an investigator who first interviewed 19-year-old murder suspect Lila Scott Alligood upon her arrest in Portland last October revealed a bit more about the killing of
SF News Family of Kathryn Steinle To File Legal Claims Against SF And Federal Officials Kathryn Steinle's parents to file legal claims against S.F., feds in Pier 14 slaying: http://t.co/2qXGMUSpBF pic.twitter.com/HcqFuC0osT— SFGate (@SFGate) September 1, 2015 by BJ Kraska The parents
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Got His Domestic Violence Conviction Expunged In a symbolic and expected turn of legal events, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has gotten his 2012 misdemeanor conviction on a false imprisonment charge involving his wife, expunged from his permanent record. He did
SF News Man Acquitted In Brutal 2011 Nob Hill Roommate Murder Yesterday, 28-year-old Waheed Kesmatyar was found not guilty on all charges in a strange and sad case that dates back to 2011, relating to the killing of his 67-year-old roommate Jack Baker. At
SF News Suspect In 2012 Quintuple Homicide Finally Going To Trial A truly horrible, grisly multiple murder occurred on a quiet street near City College in March 2012, and it was called one of the worst mass slayings in SF's history. The main suspect
SF News One-Time Reality TV Walk-On And Accused Murderer Jamal Trulove Is A Free Man After S.F. Retrial Jamal Trulove, now 34, has been acquitted in a retrial after spending the last seven years behind bars for a 2007 murder he maintained he did not commit. Some of you may remember
Arts & Entertainment New Doc Suggests The Silk Road Case Could Set Lasting Precedent For Fourth Amendment The federal prosecution of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged deep-web black marketeer known as Dread Pirate Roberts of The Silk Road, may have some major flaws when it comes to how the FBI built
SF News Federal Judge Allows Nudists' Suit Against City To Move Forward The crusade to retain the right to be naked in the streets of San Francisco marches on as a federal judge has whittled down a lawsuit brought by nudist activists against the City
SF News SFPD Corruption Trial Pits Cops Against Cops The trial of two "bad cops" involved in a string of incidents involving stolen drugs, stolen goods, warrantless searches, and other poor behavior began this week in federal court. Sgt. Ian Furminger, 48,
SF News Oikos University Shooter Indicted, But He Remains Mentally Incompetent For Trial There's a minor update in the still-yet-to-be-tried case of accused multiple murderer One Goh, the sole suspect in the killing of seven people at Oakland's Oikos University in 2012. Goh, 45, was indicted
SF News L.A. Dodgers Found Negligent In Bryan Stow Trial, Family To Receive $18 Million Jurors reached a verdict in a civil trial today finding that the L.A. Dodgers and their stadium were responsible in the egregious 2011 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow. Stow and his
SF News One Of Two Convicted Gang Members Sentenced To Life In 2011 Jack London Square Restaurant Shooting 25-year-old Clem Thompkins, one of two convicted co-defendants in a highly publicized 2011 double-murder in an Oakland restaurant, was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. He and fellow reputed gang member
SF News Accused Public Library Chair Thrower Gets Off In a victory for the Public Defender's Office but not necessarily for the safety of the populus, a 26-year-old man who was identified by eyewitnesses as the attacker in that bloody assault-by-chair last
SF News Trial Begins For Crazed Right-Winger In 2010 Freeway Shootout Those who've been with us for a few years will recall the dramatic shootout with police that happened in the summer of 2010, around midnight on a July Saturday, in the middle of
SF News Ross Ulbricht, Accused Silk Road Founder, Was An Eagle Scout And Avowed Libertarian The New York Times has just done the most in-depth piece we've seen so far about the case against Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of being the founder of illegal drug-trade site The
SF News Not Guilty Pleas In 2011 Fatal SOMA Nightclub Beating The case of a medical student who was severely beaten and killed at Temple Nightclub (540 Howard Street) three years ago is finally nearing some possible resolution with two arrests in the last
SF News 22-Year-Old Oakland Man To Stand Trial In Murder Of 8-Year-Old At Sleepover 22-year-old Darnell Williams was ordered to stand trial Monday in the shooting death of an innocent 8-year-old girl and in injuring three other people, including two other children, last July. The murder occurred
SF News Murder Conviction Overturned In One-Time Reality TV Contestant Jamal Trulove Jamal Trulove, a one-time reality TV walk-on who was convicted in 2010 for the murder of a man in San Francisco, may still get his freedom back following an appellate court decision this
