SF News Founders of OneTaste, the Cult-y SF Orgasm Group, Begin Federal Trial In NY The co-founders of SF-based female-orgasm evangelism group/"wellness startup" OneTaste, Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, are on trial in New York for labor-law violations, and that trial began on Monday.
SF News Ex-Partner of Pelosi Attacker David DePape, Gypsy Taub, Was Also On His Hit List, Police Say We are now learning that noted local nudist activist Gypsy Taub was among the people that accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape had on a list of targets in what was apparently some sort of suicide-mission spree.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused of Hate Crimes In Castro Who Said Being LGBTQ Goes 'Against God' Is Acquitted of All Charges The San Francisco Public Defender's Office today announced the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who had been in jail since an arrest last June in connection with a series of incidents described as hate crimes in the Castro.
Business & Tech Jury Selection Set to Begin In Elizabeth Holmes Trial; Defense Expected to Cite Abuse by Boyfriend The high-profile criminal trial begins this week of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. While opening arguments in the San Jose courtroom won't begin until after Labor Day, jury selection begins on Tuesday, August 31.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Is Pregnant and Her Defense Has Won Her Another Delay In Her Criminal Trial Attorneys for disgraced Theranos founder and possible cyborg Elizabeth Holmes — who, believe it or not, still hasn't gone to trial in her fraud case — won yet another delay in the court case because their client is pregnant, and her due date is right around when her trial was set to begin in July.
SF News Trial Begins For Pair Accused In Murder Of 66-Year-Old Oakland Woman Who May Have Been Filming Them Testimony began this week in the trial of Mario Floyd and Stephon Lee, two reputed gang members accused in the broad-daylight murder of 66-year-old Judy Salamon, who was shot dead
SF News San Mateo Man Convicted Of Murder In 2013 Double-Shooting Outside Gay SoMa Club Some justice has been served in the senseless killing of Melquiesha "Mel" Warren, a 23-year-old woman shot dead in a SoMa parking lot in 2013 over a fender bender,
SF News PG&E Fined Only $3 Million In San Bruno Criminal Case, Convicted On 6 of 12 Charges In the case of a devastating explosion that killed eight people, injured 58 others, and destroyed 38 homes in a San Bruno neighborhood six years ago, utility company PG&E has been
SF News PG&E Trial Closes With Prosecutor Saying The Utility Had 'Lost Its Way' Testimony in the federal criminal trial against PG&E concluded Wednesday, and the prosecutor in the case didn't go out without some scathing rebukes of the company's mismanagement
SF News PG&E's Criminal Trial Over Deadly San Bruno Explosion Begins In Two Weeks We had some warning last month, and now KRON 4 brings a reminder that, nearly six years on, PG&E is about to finally face criminal charges over the infamous San Bruno
SF News Shrimp Boy Guilty On 162 Criminal Counts, Including Racketeering And Murder The verdict came in this morning in the case of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, after a nine-week trial that captured local headlines for months prior to its start, and the
SF News Shrimp Boy Defense Attorney Tony Serra Calls Feds 'Sick People' In Closing Arguments The fate of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, the alleged leader of the Ghee Kung Tong crime syndicate in SF's Chinatown accused of racketeering, murder, and many other things, now
SF News Shrimp Boy Takes The Stand, Speaks Publicly For The First Time Since 2014 Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow took the witness stand Monday in his racketeering trial that has also turned into an ersatz murder trial, serving as the first witness in his defense after
SF News Oikos University Shooter May Be Too Insane For Trial, But Wants Death Penalty Anyway As we learned in October, three and a half years on since the mass shooing at Oakland's Oikos University that claimed seven lives, confessed shooter One Goh might finally be ready
SF News Shrimp Boy Update: Attorney Serra Tries To Discredit Federal Agent The latest from the trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow was yesterday's cross-examination of prosecution witness "David Jordan," an undercover federal agent whose real name we
SF News Shrimp Boy's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Wants To Get Mayor Lee On Witness Stand What's sure to be the colorful trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow kicked off Monday with opening arguments, and already there is talk of mafia-style hits and steak
SF News Francisco Sanchez, Suspect In Pier 14 Murder, In Court For Preliminary Hearing Witnesses testify in #Pier14 killing of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle. http://t.co/Iy0UfapDdr pic.twitter.com/0zGqgW8c1o — SFGate (@SFGate) August 25, 2015 by Betty Wang Photos and new details were revealed
SF News Will Uber And Lyft Be Forced To Treat Drivers As Employees? A federal judge struck a blow to the business models of "ride-sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft by suggesting that it's not legal to treat drivers as independent
SF News Two SF Cops Convicted In Corruption Trial Involving Stolen Drugs And Cash In the first of two trials involving a group of five SFPD officers federally indicted on multiple counts of theft, misconduct, and overall bad behavior, two currently suspended SF cops were found guilty
SF News Federal Court Rules Against Family Of Unarmed Man Killed By SFPD A lawsuit brought against the San Francisco Police Department by the family of an unarmed man gunned down by cops was rejected by a jury Wednesday, with the court ruling that officers had
SF News Manslaughter Verdict In 2011 Buena Vista Park Gay Killing The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office announced today that a Superior Court jury has found 25-year-old David Munoz Diaz — who stood accused of murdering a man he had a sexual
SF News Jurors Deliberate Over Salacious Evidence In 2011 Gay Murder In Buena Vista Park Arguments in the trial of 25-year-old David Munoz Diaz ended Monday after jurors heard two weeks of salacious, kink-related evidence in the 2011 murder case of 23-year-old Freddy
SF News Barry Bonds Is Appealing His Felony Conviction, Again [Big sigh.] Three years after Barry Bonds was convicted of obstructing justice in the 2003 steroids-distribution case in which he was originally charged, the retired player has gone back to the 9th
SF News Accused Silk Road Founder Wants His Bitcoin Back Alleged underground drug-trade website proprietor Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts of The Silk Road, is saying in a new court filing that the federal government owes him his 144,
SF News Oakland Woman Sentenced For String Of Violent 2010 Robberies 36-year-old Althea Housley was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison today for four armed robberies in Oakland that left one man dead. In a plea deal in which
