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...
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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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...
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...
San Francisco, CA – San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced today that the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee has recommended a...
Report Comes On The Heels Of The City Attorney’s Attempt To Expand Gang Injunctions in San Francisco’s Mission And Western Addition Districts
San Francisco, CA...
San Francisco, CA – On the morning of February 7, 2007, three plainclothes police officers approached 39-year-old John Gibson under the mistaken belief that...