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$436,000 Settlement Awarded To Ex-Medical Examiner Official Fired After Jeff Adachi Autopsy

A former staffer at the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office says he was fired after refusing to omit all the cocaine business out of Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s autopsy. Today he was awarded a $436,000 settlement.

Former SF Medical Examiner's Staffer Involved In Adachi Autopsy Sues City Over His Firing

A former employee of the SF Medical Examiner's Office claims he was fired after refusing to alter the autopsy report of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the request of the City Administrator. The city says that the allegations are "complete fiction."

Adachi-Chasing Journalist Gets $369,000 SFPD Settlement Over Sledgehammer Raid

Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody sold details of Jeff Adachi’s death report for $2,500 a pop, and now he’s sledgehammered out a $369,000 settlement with SFPD over the raid of his home.

Adachi’s Family Fights Back On Autopsy With Experts Who Report He Died Of ‘Natural Causes’

One toxicologist says there was “no cocaine” in Jeff Adachi’s system, and another says his blood alcohol was the equivalent of “half a beer."

Judge Slams Police, Rules In Favor Of Journalist Bryan Carmody

A Superior Court judge has ruled that a search warrant issued to police in May for the phone records of journalist Bryan Carmody was improper, and that police must destroy any evidence they obtained through it.

Sledgehammerin' SFPD Was Issued Seven Warrants In Adachi Leak Case

Journalist Bryan Carmody isn’t the only one who got raided, as police cop to executing at least seven search warrants in attempts to ferret out the Jeff Adachi leakers.

SFPD Chief Bill Scott Gives Extraordinary Late-Friday Press Conference to Apologize For Raid on Journalist

Was it Kamala saying she was concerned? Was it pressure from the mayor to take the fall? Was it finally realizing his department exchanged one political drama for another and dug itself into a deeper a hole?

Media Furor Grows After SFPD's Raid Of Journalist's Home Seeking Adachi Leak

The SFPD compounded the drama Friday surrounding the February 22 death of Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the leaked police report about the details of his death when they raided the home of a freelance journalist in an effort to find the source of the leak.

Apologies Fail to Quell Furor Over Jeff Adachi’s Police Report Being Shopped to Media for $2,500

The highly unusual cash offer for dirt on the late Public Defender draws apologies from police, and outrage from Adachi’s family and the Board of Supervisors.

Jeff Adachi Died From A Mix Of Cocaine And Alcohol

The Medical Examiner's report following the autopsy of late SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi found that his cause of death was acute mixed drug toxicity.

A New Law Enforcement Algorithm Helped Free Twin Peaks Shooting Suspect 5 Days Before The Crime

Can math determine who'll commit a crime while out on bail and who won't? In an experiment that's been underway since May 2016, San Francisco has adopted an algorithm designed by a Texas-based

Prosecutors Say SF Woman Pulled Trigger In Twin Peaks Slaying

A San Francisco woman who with another man was arrested in a high-profile Twin Peaks homicide pulled the trigger in the crime, prosecutors said this week. As previously reported, San Francisco Police announced

Woman Handcuffed And Held Down By BART Police Suffers Miscarriage

A pregnant woman traveling to the doctor's office with her boyfriend had a violent encounter with BART police that we reported on in August, and she now says the incident caused her to

SF Public Defender's Office Proposes $5 Million Fund To Fight Deportation Cases Under Trump

For the estimated 30,000 undocumented immigrants living in San Francisco, life could get a whole lot more difficult under a Trump Administration if the President-Elect sticks to his promise to ramp up

Deputy Charged With Arranging Inmate 'Fight Clubs' Has Troubled Past

The San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy who pleaded "not guilty" in March to charges of forcing inmates to fight for his entertainment has a long history of complaints. The Examiner reports that former Sheriff's

Melissa Harris-Perry To Speak At Public Defenders' Summit In SF Next Week

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi has hosted the San Francisco Justice Summit for more than a decade, but this year, in explicitly examining "Use of Force" at the free event — while the

Public Defender Links Super Bowl Tensions With Homeless To CHP Stabbing

The man accused of stabbing a California Highway Patrol near a SoMa homeless camp won't be arraigned until next week, but San Francisco's Public Defender is already arguing his case in the court

Man Beaten In Mission By Alameda Deputies May Suffer Permanent Damage To His Arms And Hands

Man beaten in SF by Alameda Co. sheriff's deputies had surgery for extensive injuries https://t.co/ugeSMkObb9 pic.twitter.com/CFrg5zim09— KQED News (@KQEDnews) November 19, 2015 The man seen receiving a

Not Guilty Plea For Pier 14 Shooter, As Feds Scramble To Figure Out How He Got Their Gun

The sad and bizarre case of the random shooting of a San Francisco woman by a transient Mexican man in the US without documentation has taken an even stranger twist, at the news

Defenders Of SF Jail Deputies Accused Of Forcing Inmates To Fight Attack Adachi, Claim 'Horseplay'

Let's take a spin through just a few of the issues that have plagued the San Francisco Sheriff's Department in recent years, shall we? November, 2012: San Francisco Sheriff’s Department Sergeant Michael

Public Defender: SF Jail Inmates Are Made To Fight While Sheriff's Deputies Bet On Them

At a news conference today, Public Defender Jeff Adachi alleged that San Francisco sheriff's deputies have been forcing county jail inmates to fight one another while the deputies gamble on the outcomes of

Public Defender: SFPD 'Has Not Acceptably Investigated' Slaying Of Sacred Heart Student, Arrested The Wrong Kid

Did the San Francisco Police Department arrest the wrong person in the stabbing death of Sacred Heart freshman Rashawn Williams? According to video evidence presented by the San Francisco Public Defender at a

Homeless Man Acquitted In Stabbing Of Shelter Bully

Score one for our Public Defender's office this week: A jury just acquitted a homeless man in a stabbing incident earlier this year that resulted in his victim, another homeless man, having to

Rebels Wanted: SF Public Defender's Office Now Seeking Trial Lawyers

Are you a lawyer who's looking for a job? When you watch Law and Order, do you find yourself siding against Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy? Do you have a burning desire

Hippie Hill Pot Sting Ends In Buzzkill For SFPD

An attempted pot bust on Hippie Hill back in February was snuffed out this week after a jury decided the alleged pot dealer was actually just a chill dude trying to smoke somebody