SF News Watch Ross Mirkarimi Ethics Commission Panel Live The ethics commission panel for embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is going down right now. Among other topics touched upon, a video was screened of Mirkarimi allegedly joking about domestic violence during
SF News Eliana Lopez Willing To Give Testimony In Exchange For Airfare In Ross Mirkarimi's misconduct hearings, the sidelined Sheriff's wife is apparently ready to give her own testimony before the city's Ethics Commission — but only if the City agrees to fly her back from
SF News Mirkarimi Hearing Begins; Ivory Madison Lashes Back Via Written Testimony Followers of the Ross Mirkarimi domestic abuse saga will be familiar with the name Ivory Madison the neighbor who consoled Mirkarimi's wife Eliana Lopez after the New Year's Eve incident that spurred this
SF News Eliana Lopez Goes After Mayor Lee, City Attorney Accuses False Martyrdom Here we go: Eliana Lopez has been condemning the District Attorney's office for publicly releasing cellphone video of her displaying a bruise and talking about her marriage to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi ever since
SF News Mirkarimi Wants City To Pay For His Legal Bills You can bet that City Attorney Dennis Herrera laughed when he heard the latest request from embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his lawyers. Mirkarimi's lawyers (who may or may not be working pro
SF News ABC 7 Chases Down Eliana Lopez in Venezuela Not satisfied with having only heard from her via that open letter to the Chronicle, ABC 7's Dan Noyes flew down to Caracas, Venezuela to tape an interview with Eliana Lopez, the wife
SF News Mirkarimi Case Now Officially 'A Circus' (Say His Lawyers) First Team Mirkarimi tried every legal maneuver in the book (not to mention crying on radio) to get out of the misconduct hearing, currently before the Ethics Commission. Then Mayor Lee fired back
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Video Release Delayed, Attorneys Call Suspension Absurd We know that you've all been dying, since yesterday, for an update on embattled and suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his plight to keep his job amidst an Ethics Commission hearing. Well, here
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Lopez Still Fighting To Keep Video From Mayor Though she's in exile (or, from another perspective, back home) in Venezuela, Eliana Lopez is still fighting, through her attorney, to keep Mayor Ed Lee from using the video she and neighbor Ivory
SF News Mayor's Office Calls Mirkarimi Case An 'Attempted Cover-Up' In the latest news surrounding sidelined Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's misconduct trial, it is the Mayor's turn to start lobbing out the pointed language and conspiracy theories. In an opening brief for the trial,
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Lopez Staying In Venezuela Until June; Cell Phone Records May Not Be Subpoenaed At least for now, a judge has ruled that the cell phone records of Ross Mirkarimi's former campaign manager can not be subpoenaed in the Mayor's Ethics Commission investigation of the suspended sheriff.
SF News Stunning Percentage Of Ross Mirkarimi Supporters Can't Pronounce His Name Sidelined Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi went before the Ethics Commission earlier this week. Although the early proceedings sound like a completely snoozefest, whip smart local political analyst Melissa Griffin has handily recapped the highlights
SF News Mirkarimi's Ethics Commission 'Trial' Begins With Much Procedural Brouhaha It's looking more and more like the Ethics Commission hearing for suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is going to be an ersatz trial for the domestic abuse charges for which he almost but wasn't
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Judge Rules Suspension Was Valid [Updated] Ross Mirkarimi was back in court today with his lawyers arguing before Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn that he should not have been suspended from duty as Sheriff pending his Ethics Commission hearing,
SF News Mirkarimi Tells His Side, Cries on 'Forum' Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi finally went public today with his entire side of the story on KQED's 'Forum.' He explained how wife Eliana Lopez's arm got bruised on New Year's Eve, and
SF News Mirkarimi Trying To Get Herrera Off His Case Attorneys for Ross Mirkarimi, who now include local attorney David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp from L.A., filed a petition today to get City Attorney Dennis Herrera disqualified from Mirkarimi's upcoming hearing regarding
SF News Mirkarimi Hires Michael Jackson's Attorney So this is funny/expensive: Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, whose legal arguments against his suspension are lately getting laughed at by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, has just hired a high-profile L.A. attorney
SF News Eliana Lopez Pens Open Letter To The Chronicle, Says Husband Was Victim Of Coup d'Etat Oh boy. Eliana Lopez writes in to the Chronicle from Venezuela, where she is staying with son Theo until the end of April, and she's now comparing what's happened to husband Ross Mirkarimi
SF News Mirkarimi Allowed Back In His House Today's update regarding the plight of embattled sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is that a judge has reversed an earlier decision and is allowing Mirkarimi back in his own house this week. He had been
SF News Eliana Lopez Speaks Out, Via Friend, About Disempowerment, Her Troubled Marriage It seems clear at this point that some irreparable damage has been done to Ross Mirkarimi and Eliana Lopez's marriage during this recent domestic violence scandal. But their marriage was likely headed for
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Asks Nicely To Go Back To Work, Get Paid Facing the prospect of an empty home and nothing to fill his days except Nash Bridges reruns on the USA Network, suspended sheriff Ross Mirikarimi asked the San Francisco Superior Court to overturn
SF News What's Up With Ross Mirkarimi? Probation Orientation And A Wife Out Of Town When last we checked in with Ross Mirkarimi, the recently elected — and even more recently suspended — Sheriff was refusing to resign from his post and ready to take on official charges of misconduct
SF News Mayor Lee Names Vicki Hennessy Interim Sheriff In today's final update in the ongoing Mirkarimi saga, Mayor Lee named former S.F. Department of Energy Director Vicki Hennessy as Mirkarimi's replacement during the misconduct investigation. Hennessy (no relation to long-time
SF News Breaking: Mirkarimi's Lawyer Says Sheriff Won't Resign [Updated] Although he's still got some time on the clock before Mayor Lee's deadline, the AP is now reporting that, according to Mirkarimi's attorney, the guilty sheriff will not resign despite the threat of
SF News Meanwhile, Outside The Sheriff's Office... The Press Awaits Here's the scene from outside the San Francisco Sheriff's Office where NBC Bay Area's Jodi Hernandez and the rest of the voracious press corps wait for smoke signals Ross Mirkarimi's decision to step
