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    September 15, 2011

    City Attorney Says DNA Lab Memo Is Exempt from Public Records Act

    Rockne Harmon co-authored a controversial internal memo on crime lab problems​We reported Tuesday that City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, contrary to assertions made at a public debate last week by District Attorney George Gascón, had not provided an opinion as to whether a controversial inte ... More >>

  • News

    September 14, 2011

    SFPD Investigates Officer for Mouthing Off to Press

    Rockne Harmon co-authored a controversial internal memo on crime lab problems​We reported Tuesday that City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, contrary to assertions made at a public debate last week by District Attorney George Gascón, had not provided an opinion as to whether a controversial inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    City Attorney Contradicts DA George Gascón's Statements on DNA Lab Memo

    George Gascón​The San Francisco City Attorney's Office yesterday contradicted statements District Attorney George Gascón made last week about why his office has refused to release an internal memo criticizing the DNA unit of the city's troubled police crime lab.The memo, which was authored by na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Mark McGovern Update: DA Won't Press Charges Against Patrick Power in Gaelic Football Attack

    Mark McGovern​The District Attorney's Office has decided not to press charges just yet against 26-year-old Patrick Power, the Half Moon Bay man arrested last week in connection with an off-the-ball fracas that put 22-year-old Mark McGovern in a coma. Erica Derryck, spokeswoman with the DA's Office ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    DA George Gascón Defends Handling of Crime Lab Memo

    George Gascón​District Attorney George Gascón fought back against attacks on his suppression of an internal memo criticizing the San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab's DNA unit at a public forum for DA candidates last night, asserting that his office was prepared to disclose the memo throug ... More >>

  • News

    August 24, 2011

    Crime Lab Confidential: DA and SFPD Withheld Damaging Memo About DNA Lab Failings

    George Gascón​District Attorney George Gascón fought back against attacks on his suppression of an internal memo criticizing the San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab's DNA unit at a public forum for DA candidates last night, asserting that his office was prepared to disclose the memo throug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Dennis Peron, Local Pot Guru, Cleared of Criminal Charges

    Free and pissed​Dennis Peron has said it all along. For decades, the Castro District resident -- one of the fathers of the American medical cannabis movement  -- has maintained that marijuana is medicine. And for just under a year, Peron has been insisting that he's innocent of narcotics and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    George Gascón's Losing Streak

    Well, he never actually practiced law before being DA ​Update: DA's Office responds. Read after the jump.Original story: Since George Gascón took over as District Attorney earlier this year, more defendants have walked free.As we've noted before, Gascón wasn't appointed DA for his lawyerin' skil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    George Gascon Tries to Back Up Pro-Pot Claims by Dropping Charges on Grower

    sfgov.orgWe know what we're doing​Yesterday, we told you the story of Wayne Kiloh, a 63-year-old Richmond District man who for seven years has grown medical cannabis in his Avenues home for the Green Cross, the city's lone licensed medical marijuana delivery service. After a July 2010 police raid ... More >>

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    George Gascon Flipflops on Medical Marijuana

    sfgov.orgWe know what we're doing​Yesterday, we told you the story of Wayne Kiloh, a 63-year-old Richmond District man who for seven years has grown medical cannabis in his Avenues home for the Green Cross, the city's lone licensed medical marijuana delivery service. After a July 2010 police raid ... More >>

  • News

    July 13, 2011

    This Is Your City: Housing Authority Bans San Franciscans from Public Housing

    sfgov.orgWe know what we're doing​Yesterday, we told you the story of Wayne Kiloh, a 63-year-old Richmond District man who for seven years has grown medical cannabis in his Avenues home for the Green Cross, the city's lone licensed medical marijuana delivery service. After a July 2010 police raid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    State Inspectors Find Outer Mission Nursing Home at Fault in Death of Patient

    ​An Outer Mission convalescent home's shoddy oversight of its employees led to the death of an 87-year-old resident last year, according to a new report issued by state health inspectors.The report, prepared by the California Department of Public Health, resulted in a severe "AA" citation for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Maurice Caldwell, Man Wrongfully Convicted of 1990 Murder, to be Set Free

    Maurice Caldwell, almost a free man. ​A man whose 1991 murder conviction was overturned by a San Francisco judge in December will be set free after the district attorney dismissed the charges on Friday. After 20 years in prison, Maurice Caldwell will likely walk out a free man next week. Superior ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Illegal Immigrants: More Hate Crime Victims Could Get Visas

    ​Last November, three white males attacked two Mexicans in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Those men are now facing felony assault and hate crime charges -- a relatively unreported case that District Attorney George Gascón will detail today. If there is a silver lining to this alleged hate crime, it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    DA George Gascón Says Probe of Alleged SFPD Perjury Isn't Conflict of Interest

    Independent of what?​Update: KGO reports this morning that the FBI is launching its own investigation into the allegations over the police misconduct during a drug bust earlier this year. The agency will look into possible civil rights violations among other violations.Original story, Thursday, Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Second Alleged Funeral Scammer in the Slammer

    In custody. ​Donald Rollins didn't stay on the lam for long. The former funeral home operator who is accused of bilking living clients out of money for future services turned himself in Wednesday afternoon, says Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Eileen Hirst. "Mr. Rollins is with us," she said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    DA's Office Belatedly Mails Memo Criticizing Crime Lab to Defense Lawyers

    Kamala Harris​Questions About Secrecy Surrounding Document PersistThe San Francisco District Attorney's Office has quietly begun supplying criminal defense lawyers with an internal memo that criticizes the work of the San Francisco Police Department Crime lab's DNA Unit.The document, obtained by S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    'N-Word,' Assault on Muni Platform Lead to Felony Hate-Crime Charges

    ​A 50-year-old drifter has been charged with eight felonies after he allegedly assaulted a black man on a Bayview Muni platform while saying, "Nigger, die."Most of the charges carry additional hate-crime enhancements, according to Erica Derryck, spokeswoman for the office of District Attorney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Face-Stabbing Cop Peeves Public Defender

    sfpublicdefender.orgJeff Adachi, public defender​The current hoopla at the Hall of Justice over non-disclosure of police officers' violent histories continued Monday, when Public Defender Jeff Adachi issued a terse press release asking why on earth his department wasn't told a cop involved in a ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Grandpa Allegedly Molested 8-Year-Old at School, Saying He Was Bringing Her A Snack

    D.A. Kamala Harris​A 68-year-old man has been charged with felony sexual assault for allegedly attacking his eight-year-old step-granddaughter, the district attorney's office announced today.Erica Derryck, spokeswoman for D.A. Kamala Harris, said in a press release that Pedro Hernandez was caught ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    A Secrecy Fetish

    District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    D.A. Kamala Harris Appoints Iran-Contra Prosecutor to Handle S.F. Criminal Cop Scandal

    John Keker, who went after Iran-Contra defendant Oliver North (pictured), will soon be looking into the SFPD.​District Attorney Kamala Harris announced today that she will appoint a high-powered private attorney to review the growing scandal over her office's failure to disclose the criminal backg ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2010

    The ABCs of Ditching School

    Schools are trying to contain their truancy epidemic. How're they doing? Just ask the students smoking pot less than a block from campus.

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