by Millie Lapidario
The Recorder, August 22, 2007
A recent appellate ruling from Southern California has caused quite a rumble in San Francisco — and among gang prosecutors across the state.
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Gang Prosecutors Hit
The War on Gangs: Saving the streets or abusing civil rights?
by Martin Kuz
SF Weekly
With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism
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Save San Francisco’s Drug Court!
By Jeff Adachi
Printed in SF Bay Guardian, February 2005
Thirty years after President Richard Nixon declared the national War on Drugs, this country is spending upwards of $50 billion each year to fight drug crime, abuse and addiction, continuing to pour money into another losing war, albeit, here at home. Of the 2 million inmates incarcerated [...]
San Francisco Jury Acquits Man In Sexual Assault Case
San Francisco, CA – Justin Desmangles, a member of the North Beach literary community, was acquitted yesterday of rape, attempted sodomy by force, and assault with a deadly weapon. The four-week trial took place before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Jerome Benson.
Desmangles, who once hosted jazz and literary radio shows on local station KPOO, published [...]
Bad Luck or Racism in the Criminal Justice System?
by Jeff Adachi
Printed in The Recorder, September 2005.
60 years ago, a black maid named Lena Baker was tried for capital murder in Georgia. She was charged with shooting a white man who had kidnapped her and threatened her with a metal bar. Her trial, presided over by a white judge and 12 white male jurors, lasted [...]
Man Found Not Guilty in Stabbing SF Man
CBS 5 CrimeWatch
(BCN) SAN FRANCISCO – A 20-year-old Daly City man who spent the last 19 months in county jail on murder charges was set free Tuesday after a San Francisco jury found him not guilty, Deputy Public Defender Mark Jacobs said Wednesday.
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San Francisco Jury Finds Man Not Guilty Of First Degree Murder After Second Trial
San Francisco, CA – A 20-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in a fatal stabbing that occurred during a street brawl was found not guilty yesterday after a four-week trial.
The stabbing occurred during a November 2005 melee that erupted in front of a house party in the Oceanview district of San Francisco. The victim had [...]
Breaking the Cycle
by Eliza Strickland
SF Weekly
It’s expensive and time-consuming, but a court can help cure the hard-core homeless problem in San Francisco.
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Guilt by association
by Jeff Adachi
SF Chronicle
San Francisco has begun to employ a controversial crime-fighting tool known as civil gang injunctions. Injunctions bar persons identified as gang members by law enforcement from engaging in restricted activities in specified areas. In light of the violence that the city is experiencing, proponents argue that these restrictions on civil liberties are [...]