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Ross Mirkarimi: Ethics Commission Says Sheriff Is Guilty of Official Misconduct

San Francisco's Ethics Commission decided Thursday night in a 4-1 vote that Sheriff-in-limbo Ross Mirkarimi engaged in official misconduct when he bruised his wife's arm during a New Year's Eve domestic dispute. After the marathon meeting, which lasted 11 long hours, the commission was still un ... More >>

Harvey Milk Club Asks Mayor Ed Lee to Leave Ross Mirkarimi Alone Already

Turns out, Tami Bryant and the inmates over at San Francisco County Jail aren't the only ones who want everyone to leave Sheriff-in-limbo Ross Mirkarimi alone.  The Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club this week passed a resolution demanding Mayor Ed Lee let Mirkari ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Eliana Lopez Says She Wan't Abused, She Just Bruises Easily

Eliana Lopez continued her testimony last night, where she denied that her husband, Ross Mirkarimi, abused her during the couple's domestic dispute on New Year's Eve, which ultimately led to Mirkarimi's suspension as the county sheriff. In her testimony, she detailed the New Year's Eve argument in w ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Finally Gets to Kiss His Wife

This morning, suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi embraced his wife Eliana Lopez for the first time in nearly five months after a judge lifted a protective order that had barred the couple from communicating or seeing each other. The court instead issued a modified order, clarifying that ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Eliana Lopez Talks About the Domestic Dispute With Her Husband

Eliana Lopez's testimony was like watching a live taping of Telemundo; there were laughs, cries, boo's, and applause as she testified, sometimes with a little sass, on her husband's behalf at City Hall last night. Lopez, a well-known Venezuelan soap opera star, smirked, smiled, rolled her eyes, and ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Admirers Ask Mayor Ed Lee to Back Off Suspended Sheriff

It might be hard to find anyone vocally supporting Ross Mirkarimi right now, but those who are will certainly let you know it. There's a small legion of Ross supporters who are refusing to leave his side as he prepares to testify tomorrow in hopes of getting his job back as San Francisco sheriff. Ta ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: "Ross Is A Victim as Well," Wife Claims in E-mail

Ross Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, filed a declaration today for the suspended sheriff's official misconduct hearing. The statement, her first under oath since the couple's Jan. 1 domestic dispute spurred a criminal investigation, explains in detail what she has been saying publicly all along: Her ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: The Drama From the Eyes of Mirkarimi's iPhone

Ross Mirkarimi's text messages with his wife and campaign manager reveal a more personal side to the drama that has unfolded ever since his Dec. 31 domestic dispute, for which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment.Publicly released yesterday as evidence in Mirkarimi's Ethics Commission ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi's Text Records Released to Mayor Ed Lee

If you were trying to orchestrate a cover up of your domestic violence, would you be texting your cronies about it?Mayor Ed Lee suspects that Ross Mirkarimi is a texting kind of guy, and his bid to oust the suspended-Sheriff might depend on it. In the week after the dispute where Mirkarimi bruise ... More >>

Eliana Lopez Responds to Release of Emotional Video Showing Her Bruise

(Update 12:50 p.m.): Eliana Lopez responds to the video release. Read after the jump:The Chronicle has obtained the incriminating video that everyone has been waiting for -- the one Eliana Lopez made the day after her husband, Sheriff-in-limbo Ross Mirkarimi, bruised her arm in a domestic dispute. T ... More >>

Are These William Carlos Williams Poems or Ross Mirkarimi Ethics Hearing Excerpts?

Here's a game. Are the following chunks of words William Carlos Williams poems or evidence in the Ross Mirkarimi Ethics Commission hearing? 1) So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. 2) I cannot. And neither can he. You have to reject Ivory's act ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Eliana Lopez Video Allowed, Judge Rules

The now-infamous Eliana Lopez video may be used as evidence in suspended-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's ethics hearing, Judge Garrett Wong ruled . The video, in which Lopez tearfully showed a bruise she said her husband gave her, could also eventually become public, as Wong did not tie any restrictions t ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Judge Grants Eliana Lopez More Time to Fight City Over Video

Update 2:32 pm: Judge Garrett Wong granted Eliana Lopez's attorney's motion for continuance today. This means she will have more time to prepare her argument that the court should not release to the city the video of Lopez describing an alleged domestic assault by her husband, suspended-Sheriff Ross ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: City Attorney Releases Initial List of Witnesses to Testify

Mayor Ed Lee's legal strategy to expel suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is taking shape as expected. Today his legal team released an initial list of fact witnesses for the Ethics Commission hearing. The witness list seeks testimony from, among others, Mirkarimi's ex-girlfriend Christina Flores, hi ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Explains How His Wife Got the Bruise

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi went on KQED's Forum this morning to finally give the public what they want: a detailed account of what happened between him and his wife, Eliana Lopez, on the morning of Dec. 31, 2011.In an emotional interview with Michael Krasny, Mirkarimi, who was suspended last month witho ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee Had the Right to Suspend Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, City Attorney Says

Misconduct "in office" encompasses the time period after the election, not just after an elected official is sworn-in, according to the city attorney, who released a rebuttal to Sheriff-in-Limbo Ross Mirkarimi's request that he should be reinstated as the county sheriff. The 33-page counterattack, f ... More >>

How the Sheriff Came to This: Mirkarimi's Worst Decisions

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Mayor Ed Lee Suspends Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Files Misconduct Charges

​Mayor Ed Lee officially charged Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi with misconduct today, stating the elected official's conduct "is fundamentally incompatible with holding the Office of Sheriff."Lee  took a kitchen sink approach with the charges, rattling off several ways in which Mirkarimi's actions a ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Refuses to Resign as Sheriff, Mayor to Charge Him with Official Misconduct

​Despite political pressure and calls within the community for his resignation, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced just now that he will not step down as county sheriff. Mirkarimi told reporters waiting outside his office at City Hall that he believes he is still qualified to run the county jails, d ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Sentenced to One Day in Jail, Probation

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was sentenced to one day in his own county jail for falsely imprisoning his wife, Eliana Lopez, during a New Year's Eve dispute.  He will get credit for time he has already spent behind bars.Mirkarimi, who was arrested a few days after being sworn in as the new sheriff ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Apologizes for "Arrogance and Anger Issues"

​It was a strange and imposing sight for unsuspecting passersby making a hard left out of the Hall of Justice's third floor elevator: A throng of reporters three rows deep blockading the corridor.Reporters and photographers aimed their gazes and lenses squarely on the elevator entrance-way, eagerl ... More >>

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Pleads Guilty, Stay Away Order Still in Effect

​(Update 1:30 p.m): Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty this afternoon to one misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment as part of a plea deal. Prosecutors dropped all three charges against the embattled sheriff in connection to his domestic violence case that stunned the San Francisco community. ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi: Dead Politician Walking

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's belated decision to accept a plea deal ends the increasingly lurid trial surrounding his alleged New Year's Eve manhandling of his wife. If Mirkarimi is hoping to keep any further testimony regarding who's been hiding whose panties in his house or affidavits question ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Eliana Lopez Video Admissible, Appeals Panel Rules

​In the latest of a string of pre-trial successes for prosecutors, a San Francisco Superior Court appellate panel ruled today that a video of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife describing how he physically abused her can be admitted as evidence in Mirkarimi's domestic-violence trial.As the San Francisc ... More >>

"Exotic," "Lusty, Busty": SJ Merc Explores Mirkarimi Trial's Sexy Angle

​The saga of Ross Mirkarimi and his bruised wife Eliana Lopez is making the rounds coast-to-coast today, with an Associated Press report on the San Francisco sheriff's trial on domestic abuse charges appearing in hundreds of media outlets around the country.Mirkarimi's trial was to begin with open ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Trial: Wife's Video Displaying Bruises Admissable in Court

​A Judge ruled this morning that the video Sheriff  Ross Mirkarimi's wife made with a neighbor detailing the sheriff's alleged physical abuse will be allowed as evidence. This, of course, is a huge victory for the prosecution, which has stated that without this scathing video -- which reveals ... More >>

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Gets New, "Impartial" Judge for Trial

​Ross Mirkarimi's attorney successfully got her client's domestic violence case reassigned to a judge who she says will be fair and partial toward the embattled sheriff.According to new outlets, Mirkarimi appeared in court this morning with his attorney, Lidia Stiglich, who claimed that Judge Susa ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Says Son Suffered Stress-Related Rashes from Separation

Peter JamisonMirkarimi in court​Embattled Sheriff Ross Mikarimi appeared in court this afternoon, where a judge was supposed to decide whether a neighbor's testimony about alleged domestic violence between the sheriff and his wife was nothing but hearsay. But after a five-minute hearing, the judge ... More >>

Domestic Violence Billboard Featuring Mirkarimi Quote to Go Up Next Week

​If ever there were a clear indication of how San Franciscans feel about Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's domestic violence case, this is it. In less than a week, a local domestic violence group was able to rake in the $4,000 it needed for a billboard that will feature Mirkarimi's infamous quote he uttere ... More >>

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Alleged Wife Abuser, Wins Right to Visit Son

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi regained the right to see his 2-year-old son in family court today, overcoming a protective order that a judge had issued after domestic-violence charges were filed against him last month.According to an agreement between Mirkarimi and his wife and alleged abuse victim, Eli ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Court Papers Detail "Damage" to Son from Judge's Stay-Away Order

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife, whom he has been charged with physically abusing, appeared in San Francisco Family Court today asking a judge to allow her husband supervised visits with the couple's son, asserting that a court order barring Mirkarimi from seeing his family is doing "damage" to the ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi's Son "Devastated" by Not Seeing Father, Lawyer Says

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will return to court again on Friday to try and win back his right to see his 2-year-old son, Theo. Twice, a judge has denied his request to lift the stay-away order, which has barred him from having contact with his wife, Eliana Lopez, and his son, after an alleged domesti ... More >>

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Isolated His Wife, Prosecutors Say

​The case against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is looking grimmer after prosecutors filed a motion in court today claiming the sheriff isolated his wife for more than 18 hours after he allegedly abused her during a domestic dispute. Mirkarimi has been accused of physically abusing his wife, Eliana Lopez ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Loses Fight to Lift Restraining Order, More Texts from His Wife Revealed

​Mirkarimi's wife told neighbor about potential child neglect episode in which son was left in the car and not being fed. Mirkarimi has gone to three counseling sessions. A Superior Court judge refused to lift a restraining order Thursday preventing Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi from seeing his wife, Eli ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi: Second Abuse Complaint Lodged Against Sheriff by "Ex-Girlfriend" (Exclusive)

​A second woman who claims to have dated Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2008 says he physically abused her while they were in a relationship, according to police records obtained by SF Weekly. The woman filed a police report yesterday afternoon at the Northern District station, where she told police th ... More >>

Analysis: Damning Text Messages Emerge in Ross Mirkarimi Spouse Abuse Case

​One of the major missing pieces in the domestic-violence case against newly elected Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi emerged during his arraignment on three misdemeanor counts yesterday: Text messages and e-mails, allegedly sent by his wife, that prosecutors say demonstrate her concerns that Mirkarimi was ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Prosecutors Read Alleged Text Messages from Wife, Judge Issues Stay Away Order

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi appears in court ... for his own hearing​Update: (4:41 p.m.): Judge Susan Breall issues stay away order, barring Sheriff from seeing his family. Meanwhile, prosecutors read Eliana Lopez's text messages in court. Read updated story below.Original story: Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Eliana Lopez Admits She Talked to Neighbor, But Denies Abuse

​Eliana Lopez once again publicly denied having been abused by her husband, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, this time telling a Venezuelan radio station that she spoke to her neighbor, Ivory Madison, detailing only a "disagreement" with Mirkarimi "like all couples have." Moreover, Lopez questioned Madison ... More >>

Chron Columnist Asks if S.F. Should Be Sanctuary City for Abusive Husbands

​As we all know, the Chron pays their "token conservative" Debra J. Saunders to espouse whatever ideals are contrary to those of San Francisco. In her column today, she takes on the issue of whether everyone is being a little too hard on Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who on Friday was charged with batte ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Sheriff Goes "Ballistic" During Fight with Wife, Warrant Says

​Police Interview Second Witness In Domestic Violence Incident A copy of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's arrest warrant was released to the media today, painting a disturbing picture of what allegedly took place between Mirkarimi and his wife, Eliana Lopez, during a reported New Year's Eve domestic dispu ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi to Face Three Misdemeanors, Sources Say

​Sources tell SF Weekly that elected sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is expected to hold a press conference today, responding to domestic violence charges leveled against him. A source tells SF Weekly that the District Attorney will file three charges against Mirkarimi, including battery and child endange ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Sheriff Charged, Barred from Visiting Family

​Newly Elected Sheriff Booked In County Jail Today:A San Francisco judge this afternoon issued a warrant for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's arrest, charging the former city supervisor with three misdemeanor counts, including battery, child endangerment, and attempting to dissuade a witness. SF Weekly St ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Domestic Violence Groups Call on Sheriff to Resign

​Update 2:25 p.m.: Staff writer Joe Eskenazi was at City Hall and gave us a puzzling detail about this afternoon's press conference: Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, stood in the crowd among reporters and anti-domestic violence advocates who were calling on her husband to resign as sheriff. Eskenaz ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi's Wife Attends Anti-Ross Mirkarimi Rally

​A hastily assembled press conference pairing members of the media with greater numbers of anti-domestic violence advocates calling for the resignation of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was graced by an odd visitation -- Mirkarimi's wife. Eliana Lopez stood, literally, on the steps of City Hall with membe ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Likely to be Charged in Alleged Domestic Violence Incident

​It appears the District Attorney's Office is poised to slap misdemeanor charges on newly minted sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, who allegedly left a bruise on his wife's arm during a New Year's Eve domestic dispute. Despite the fact that Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, has insisted the alleged abuse was ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Neighbor Who Reported Domestic Violence Fundraised for New Sheriff

Yesterday was the first time newly minted Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi talked publicly about allegations that he physically abused his wife, Eliana Lopez, in a New Year's Eve domestic violence dispute. Not surprisingly, Mirkarimi gave a flat-out "no" when asked whether he had ever abused his wife. He even ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Allegations of Abuse "Out of Context." Say What?

Luke Thomas, Fog City JournalLa famille Mirkarimi​There was, understandably, much talk about the awkwardness of Ross Mirkarimi's Sunday inauguration as San Francisco sheriff. The progressive stalwart and former supervisor is facing allegations of domestic abuse; if things go badly for him he could ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi, Sheriff-Elect, Investigated for Alleged Domestic Violence

​Today's news will make for an awkward swearing in for Sheriff-elect Ross Mirkarimi, who is reportedly at the center of a domestic violence police investigation. According to media reports, a neighbor called police over New Year's to report a domestic violence incident between Mirkarimi and his wi ... More >>

Mirkarimi's 'Baby Mama' Launches Mother of All Blogs

SF Weekly's proud Baby Mama of the Year now has a blog​Eliana Lopez, the Venezuelan soap star who gave birth to a son this year with Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, launched a Spanish-language blog this month about motherhood named maminatural.  Its glamorous tagline: "Being a woman, bei ... More >>