Kwixuan Maloof, managing attorney in charge of the San Francisco Public Defender's office, explains why the Pretrial Diversion program is the bullet train to traditional justice's lumbering freight.Read More

Public Defender Jeff Adachi is off to Washington D.C. this week for a national conference on criminal defense for the poor.Read More

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi will be among the featured speakers this week at U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s national conference on criminal defense for the poor.Read More

A man accused of spitting in a parking enforcement officer’s face was acquitted by a San Francisco jury Thursday afternoon.Read More

A woman who believed she was rescuing a lost dog from Union Square traffic was acquitted of stealing the animal by a San Francisco jury Wednesday.Read More

Three men on trial for two Visitacion Valley killings were found not guilty of all charges by a San Francisco jury Tuesday. Joc Wilson, 23, Floyd Jackson, 22 and, Emon Brown, 21, faced first-degree murder charges in addition to gang and firearm enhancements. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.Read More

A San Francisco man was acquitted of a felony drug possession charge Thursday afternoon after a jury determined he was unaware that a cookie tin contained crack when he picked it up to use as a water bowl for his puppy.Read More