Email Author Peter Jamison

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 25, 2011

  "Let Him Prey"

• 2011 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published September 29, 2010

  "Head Case"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 29, 2010

  "Head Case"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 24, 2010

  "Dead Sea"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published September 29, 2010

  "Head Case"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 16, 2009

  "Time Bomb"

• 2010 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published September 16, 2009

  "Time Bomb"

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2010 Stories by Peter Jamison

• Bay Area Police Officers Shoot Four Suspects in Less than Two Days

  published Dec 30, 2010

  There has been a series of officer-involved shootings in the Bay Area since late Tuesday night, when a San Jose Police officer's shoot-out with an alleged robber set off a spate of four armed confront... More >>

• Chris Daly Expects Big Crowd Tonight at Buck Tavern

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Supervisor Chris Daly has gotten plenty of attention recently for his plunge from politics into the barman's trade. Daly, who is now co-owner of the Buck Tavern on Market near Gough, will be at his ne... More >>

• Will Federal Crime Lab Reform Affect Californiar

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Perhaps not, according to an interesting report published yesterday by California Watch.Kendall Taggart writes that some of the foremost advocates for reforming the field of forensic science within Ca... More >>

• Draft of Forensic Science Reform Bill Released

  published Dec 27, 2010

  The office of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has released a draft version of legislation to reform the field of forensic science across the country -- an effort that could eventually have an impact o... More >>

• Federal Legislation to Reform Crime Labs Proposed

  published Dec 22, 2010

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) says he will introduce legislation next year to reform the field of forensic science nationwide, a move that could potentially have impli... More >>

• SF MOMA Accidentally Tells Losers They Won Art Award. Ouch.

  published Dec 21, 2010

  SF MOMA knows how he feelsWe all have our Larry David moments. (See above.) But institutions, too, can be guilty of cringe-inducing gaffes. And the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is apparently one... More >>

• Jerry Brown Announces $2 Billion Settlement with Wells Fargo

  published Dec 20, 2010

  The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today that Wells Fargo has agreed in a settlement to offer home-loan modifications worth $2 billion, and will also pay $32 million in restitution t... More >>

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  Prosecutor: Crime Lab Produced 'Misleading' Report Implicating Murder Suspects

  published Dec 17, 2010

  District Attorney Releases Critique of DNA Evidence in 2007 HomicideA highly regarded prosecutor and DNA expert who was employed for three years at the San Francisco District Attorney's office authore... More >>

• DA Kamala Harris Says She Never Saw Report Criticizing Crime Lab

  published Dec 15, 2010

  SFPD Chief Also Denies Awareness of Critique Written by Prosecutor and DNA ExpertDistrict Attorney Kamala Harris and San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon both said today they have never seen and w... More >>

• Video: Public Defender Jeff Adachi Discusses the SFPD Crime Lab DNA Scandal

  published Dec 14, 2010

  As head of the office that represents the majority of defendants charged with serious crimes in San Francisco, Public Defender Jeff Adachi has paid close attention to problems with forensic evidence a... More >>

• The Paper Trail: Documents Raise Doubts About the SFPD Crime Lab's DNA Unit

  published Dec 14, 2010

  Problems with the quality of DNA evidence at the San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab, and efforts to conceal those problems by government officials, are extensively documented through letters, r... More >>

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  A Timeline of Problems at the SFPD DNA Lab

  published Dec 14, 2010

  Through reporting over the past month, SF Weekly has uncovered multiple instances of scientifically and ethically questionable conduct by DNA analysts at the San Francisco Police Department Crime Labo... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  SFPD crime lab's DNA evidence could be tainted by concealed mistakes

  published December 15, 2010

  Nine months ago, the San Francisco Police Department Crime Laboratory — a... More >>

• Teresa Caffese, Chief Attorney at Public Defender's Office, to Step Down

  published Dec 13, 2010

  The highest ranking non-elected official at the San Francisco Public Defender's office is departing at the end of this year to start her own law practice.Teresa Caffese, who has worked at the Public D... More >>

• DNA Lab Fallout: Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Rape Cases Over Sample Switch

  published Dec 10, 2010

  Two San Francisco defense attorneys are asking that their clients' rape cases be dismissed because of a DNA sample mix-up -- and its subsequent concealment -- at the San Francisco Police Department cr... More >>

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  Exclusive: Prosecutor Says DA Is Sitting on His Report Critical of Crime Lab

  published Dec 09, 2010

  DA's Office Denies Memo's Existence, But Prosecutor and DNA Expert Says He Wrote It in MarchOne of the nation's foremost DNA experts says he wrote an in-house report for the San Francisco District Att... More >>

• Steel Yourself for Winter. Watch This Rain Video.

  published Dec 08, 2010

  That's right, San Franciscans. December is here, the cold has set in, and the wet is beginning to arrive, nary to depart again until March or thereabouts. This isn't all bad: There will be green field... More >>

• Trial Imminent for Steve Vender, PI Charged with Witness Tampering

  published Dec 07, 2010

  The closely watched case of a San Francisco private investigator charged with dissuading a witness from testifying is scheduled to go to trial next month.We've reported in the past on the murky circum... More >>

• Does California Have a Futurer No: California *Is* the Future.

  published Dec 06, 2010

  That's the conclusion of an interesting piece of commentary published today in The New Republic. Penned by former Sacramento Bee editorial page editor Peter Schrag, the article argues that California ... More >>

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  Exclusive: SFPD Concealed DNA Sample Switch at Crime Lab

  published Dec 03, 2010

  Records of bungle in 2008 case were destroyed, investigation findsA forensics analyst's error that resulted in a mix-up of DNA samples, reportedly in a homicide case, has been concealed by officials a... More >>

• 'Boring' Story: Google Pays $1 in Damages to Couple for Street View Transgressions

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Pennsylvania residents Aaron and Christine Boring -- yes, you may now chuckle at our headline -- have notched a somewhat ambiguous victory in their legal battle against Google's Street View function.W... More >>

• Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Overcrowded California Prisons Today

  published Nov 30, 2010

  The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in Schwarzenegger v. Plata, the landmark prison-overcrowding lawsuit that could eventually result in tens of thousands of state inmates... More >>

• Wanna Resist Arrestr There's an App for That.

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Shoulda read the section on nautical D.U.I.'sWe know, we know. Not-so-clever variations on the "app for that" phrase long ago jumped the shark. But please, read on -- someday this blog post might save... More >>

• Kamala Harris Appears Set to Cinch Victory in Attorney General Race

  published Nov 23, 2010

  Pardon us, gentle reader, for the intolerable hedge in the above headline. Lacking the statistical prowess of some other observers, we're still going to play it safe -- yet it appears that San Francis... More >>

• Gas Mask Removed from Cow at Aquarium's Controversial Global Warming Exhibit

  published Nov 22, 2010

  A cow in a gas mask is a memorable image. That's probably why it was deployed, to great effect, in a recent exhibit on climate change at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. While this is the sort of thing that... More >>