News and Press Releases

A recent immigrant from Burma accused of pushing his wife so violently that she fell and hit her head on the sidewalk was found not guilty today by a San Francisco jury.

Free screening and discussion Thursday of A Hard Straight, a film by Goro Toshima. This documentary details the experience of three individuals transitioning from prison to life in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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.