SF News Criminal Justice Advocate and SF Oversight Board Member Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges Supervisor Aaron Peskin has reportedly called for William Monroe "Tariq" Palmer II resignation from the sheriff’s oversight board.
SF News Accused Shooter In Three Oakland Murders Sentenced to 12 Years In High-Profile Test of DA's Policies A highly controversial case that has been the source of considerable courtroom drama in Alameda County in recent months has ended with a sentence that is unlikely to feel like justice for the families of three murder victims.
SF News Tesla Cliff Plunge, Oakland Baker’s Death Spark Debate Over Charging Suspects Against Family Wishes Two Bay Area cases that have made headlines have a common thread that the victims’ families may not want suspects charged, though that’s still unlikely to change a DA’s decision on whether to pursue charges.
SF News California Will Now Automatically Seal Criminal Records of Many Ex-Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentences A new state law hailed as “the most expansive and comprehensive record-clearing law of its kind in the country” will seal the criminal records of everyone who’s served their time, though there are a few exceptions for sex offenders and violent felons.
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 News Sacramento Shooting Suspects Both Recently Released From Prison, Already Sparking Debate About Sentencing The two brothers who are so far the only suspects in Sunday's mass shooting in downtown Sacramento were both multiply convicted felons who had been released from prison in the last two years.
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 Politics Key Takeaways From Chesa Boudin's New York Times Interview Embattled SF District Attorney, who would like not to be embattled much longer, once again defended himself in the national press, more or less stoically, in a new interview with the New York Times.
SF News San Jose Police and Mayor Decry Release of Two Homicide Suspects Without Bail; Attorney Says It's a Self-Defense Case It's not just San Francisco where fingers are being pointed in multiple directions in the ongoing debate about criminal justice reform, accountability, and the efficacy of the justice system to combat crime.
SF Politics 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.
SF Politics 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.
SF Politics 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.
SF News 41 California District Attorneys Press State to Reverse Regulations That Would Give 76,000 Inmates Early Release A coalition of district attorneys are petitioning the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to repeal new regulations that took effect May 1 that grants early release for tens of thousands of inmates in state prison for good behavior.
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 New Bill Would Make 18- and 19-Year-Olds Juveniles Under California Law Spearheaded by state Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), SB-889 hopes to reclassify 18- and 19-year-old Californians as juveniles or "emerging adults" in the state's criminal system, allowing them to receive support from more appropriate youth-focused services.
SF News S.F. to Get All Kindly About Felons Now; Cue Fox News' Special Report OK, so, to be clear, we're all for having criminals do their time, regret their crimes, and we believe that many of them can be rehabilitated and return to society as respectable citizens
SF News Supreme Court Orders California to Release 30,000+ Prisoners; Scalia Freaks Out The Supreme Court today issued what amounts to an injunction against the State of California and its prisons, ordering the state to release 30,000 prisoners from the overcrowded system. The 5-4 majority
SF News Miss Murder Maybe you should have voted for Prop A this election cycle after all -- at the halfway mark for 2006, there've been 45 murders this year, putting us on pace for 90 by
