Gang Prosecutors Hit
by Millie Lapidario
The Recorder, August 22, 2007
A recent appellate ruling from Southern California has caused quite a rumble in San Francisco — and among...
The War on Gangs: Saving the streets or abusing civil rights?
by Martin Kuz
SF Weekly
With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks...
Save San Francisco’s Drug Court!
By Jeff Adachi
Printed in SF Bay Guardian, February 2005
Thirty years after President Richard Nixon declared the national War on Drugs, this country is spending...
San Francisco Jury Acquits Man In Sexual Assault Case
San Francisco, CA - Justin Desmangles, a member of the North Beach literary community, was acquitted yesterday of rape, attempted sodomy by force, and...
Bad Luck or Racism in the Criminal Justice System?
by Jeff Adachi
Printed in The Recorder, September 2005.
60 years ago, a black maid named Lena Baker was tried for capital murder in Georgia. She was...
Man Found Not Guilty in Stabbing SF Man
CBS 5 CrimeWatch
(BCN) SAN FRANCISCO - A 20-year-old Daly City man who spent the last 19 months in county jail on murder charges was...
San Francisco Jury Finds Man Not Guilty Of First Degree Murder...
San Francisco, CA – A 20-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in a fatal stabbing that occurred during a street brawl was found not...
Breaking the Cycle
by Eliza Strickland
SF Weekly
It's expensive and time-consuming, but a court can help cure the hard-core homeless problem in San Francisco.
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Guilt by association
by Jeff Adachi
SF Chronicle
San Francisco has begun to employ a controversial crime-fighting tool known as civil gang injunctions. Injunctions bar persons identified as gang...
Broken Justice
Reprinted from the SF Examiner, February 18, 2005
By Jeff Adachi
Last week, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants published...