News and Press Releases

A man who claimed he was trying to roll up the window of an unattended car was acquitted by a jury Thursday afternoon of felony auto burglary and receiving stolen property, Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced today.

People charged with drug offenses in San Francisco may have their cases dropped or convictions overturned due to alleged evidence tampering and substandard conditions in the police crime lab, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced Wednesday.

Kwixuan Maloof, managing attorney in charge of the San Francisco Public Defender's office, explains why the Pretrial Diversion program is the bullet train to traditional justice's lumbering freight.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi is off to Washington D.C. this week for a national conference on criminal defense for the poor.

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi will be among the featured speakers this week at U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s national conference on criminal defense for the poor.