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Press Releases
- July 16, 2008 - SF Community Cameras Exonerate Another Man
- May 12, 2008 - Mentally Ill Man Pleads Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity
- May 8, 2008 - John Osaki to Receive 2008 Juvenile Justice Hero Award
- May 8, 2008 - Juvenile Justice Summit: Less Talk More Action; SF Leaders and Residents Convene to Reduce Youth Violence in Schools and on Public Transportation
- May 1, 2008 - Woman Acquitted Twice by Two Separate Juries in Same Month - PD Questions DA’s Motive in Filing Loitering Charges
- March 13, 2008 - San Francisco Behavioral Health Court Wins Best Practices Award
- February 15, 2008 - Public Defender Jeff Adachi Receives California Lawyer of the Year Award
- December 19, 2007 - Public Defender’s Office, ACLU, and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Call For Gang Injunction Exit Process
- December 14, 2007 - Man and His Dog Found Not Guilty of Nighttime Attack
- December 6, 2007 - Jeff Adachi Honored by the Center for Young Women’s Development at the Cheyenne Bell Leadership Awards Ceremony
- December 3, 2007 - Three Local Criminal Defense Lawyers To Be Honored With The Public Defender’s 2007 Gideon Award
- December 3, 2007 - Bayview Family Man Acquitted of Resisting Arrest and Battery
- November 13, 2007 - Deputy Public Defender Receives The California Wellness Foundation 2007 Peace Prize For Violence Prevention Efforts
- November 7, 2007 - Preliminary Hearing To Be Held in Hit-and-Run Case Against Mentally Ill Man
- October 22, 2007 - Two Men Are Exonerated After Surveillance Camera Tapes Confirm Alibis
- October 19, 2007 - Chief Attorney Teresa Caffese Presents on the LaShuan Harris Trial at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Miami
- October 19, 2007 - Public Defender’s Office Victorious in Removing Another Non-Gang Member From Gang Injunction List
- October 15, 2007 - Public Defender Jeff Adachi Victorious in Removing Non-Gang Member Client From Gang Injunction List
- September 28, 2007 - Innovative Gang Intervention Strategies Credited In Reducing Homicides in Los Angeles
- September 27, 2007 - Public Defender Honored by OCA at 20th Annual Asian American Achievement Awards Gala
- September 18, 2007 - Public Defender Goes to Court to Oppose City Attorney’s Gang Injunction
- September 13, 2007 - Writer and Activist Luis J. Rodriguez To Give Keynote Address At 2nd Annual Reentry Summit
- September 12, 2007 - San Francisco City Officials and Community Leaders Convene to Tackle Recidivism and Violence at 2nd Annual Reentry Summit
- September 7, 2007 - San Francisco Jury Acquits Woman of Assault Charges
- September 4, 2007 - American Journal of Psychiatry Study Concludes That San Francisco’s Behavioral Health Court Is Effective In Reducing Recidivism and Violence Among People With Mental Disorders
- August 14, 2007 - San Francisco Jury Acquits Man In Sexual Assault Case
- August 8, 2007 - San Francisco Jury Finds Man Not Guilty Of First Degree Murder After Second Trial
- July 18, 2007 - Study by Justice Policy Institute Questions Effectivenes of Gang Injunctions as Means of Reducing Gang Violence
- July 12, 2007 - Case of Mistaken Identity and Police Beating Results in Acquittal of San Francisco Man
- June 29, 2007 - San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee Recommends $1.4 Million In Additional Funding to Public Defender’s Office for FY 2007-08
