News and Press Releases

Kwixuan Maloof of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office has been elected president of the Charles Houston Bar Association—the first time in 40 years a deputy public defender has headed the organization, which represents African American judges, lawyers and law students throughout Northern California.

A San Francisco chef who was falsely arrested in an SFPD robbery sting was cleared by a jury Tuesday evening.

A homeless man who faced lifetime registration as a sex offender was acquitted Monday of masturbating in public after jurors determined he was simply trying to urinate.

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi will testify at the State Capitol Tuesday, Nov. 9 against extending a proposed bill that would worsen California’s prison crisis.

A former NFL lineman accused of two racially-motivated attacks was acquitted of two counts of battery with hate crime enhancements and one count of felony criminal threats, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced today.