SF News Prosecutor Outrage Ensues as Serial Car Burglar Gets Probation After Long String of Car Break-Ins In SF 27-year-old Robert Sonza was in court Thursday for a series of car thefts and gun charges dating back to 2019, having been given probation and then reoffending each time. Yet an SF Superior Court judge gave him probation yet again, despite more than a dozen arrests.
SF News California Judges Possibly Banned From Being Boy Scout Leaders Because Of Discriminatory Policies A proposal from an ethics advisory committee to the California Supreme Court will potentially ban California judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts of America because of the organization's discrimination against gays. 47
SF News Obama Nominates San Francisco Lawyer To 9th Circuit San Francisco lawyer Michelle Friedland is one of three people whom President Obama just nominated to fill vacancies on the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. Friedland is a Berkeley native and
SF News ACLU Trying to Fight State's DNA Collection Policy We want to like the ACLU, really we do, but sometimes they have to take difficult positions in order to secure legal precedents like privacy rights, as in the case they're arguing now