News and Press Releases

A 50-year-old man was acquitted of a Castro Street battery after footage of the confrontation revealed he acted in self defense while cornered and intimidated by two men, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced today.

A woman wrongly accused of domestic violence after struggling to get her drunken boyfriend onto a bus was cleared of all charges by a San Francisco jury Wednesday, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced.

Public Defender honored for innovative programs, 'speaking truth to power.'

Most inmates in our jail are there because they're poor.

Read Public Defender Jeff Adachi's San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed on the Chronic Inebriate Court .