Subject: Jeff Adachi

• East of Eden

  March 11, 2009

• Sandoval Ducks, Mirkarimi Covers, and the Community Justice Center goes Down Down Down...

  June 11, 2008

• Mayor Slashes Public Defender's Budget -- Despite Adachi's Extremely Public Campaign To Avoid Cuts

  Richard BuiPublic Defender Jeff Adachi sticks to his gunsSan Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi tested out the old maxim about the squeaky wheel, hoping a preemptive publicity campaign would save his office from the city-wide cuts in next fiscal year's budget. But there's no grease left in this city. Instead, he was knocked down just the same in the proposed budget released by the Mayor today. Adachi says the proposed a $1.9 million dollar cut to

  June 1, 2009

• SF Crime Cameras are the Marisa Tomei of Questionable Safety Initiatives

  July 17, 2008

• San Francisco Police Department Can't Stop Homicides

  November 6, 2008

• Budget Lotto

  April 12, 1995

• Lawyer Brawl: Public Defender Says Supervisor 'Has No Idea What He's Doing.' Supe Retorts Public Defender Is a 'Horrible' Administrator

  There's no love lost right now between Supervisor Sean Elsbernd (left) and Public Defender Jeff AdachiPerhaps disproving the scientific theory Mo' Money, Mo' Problems, a critical lack of the stuff has touched off a nasty feud between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd. After Elsbernd announced he would introduce legislation at today's Board of Supervisors meeting to cut the Public Defender's staff and budget, Adachi went ballistic on BeyondChron.org: Supervisor Sean Elsbern

  February 3, 2009

• Adachi! Elsbernd! Nasty to Each Other! In Public! On Video!

  Earlier this week we wrote about how Supervisor Sean Elsbernd and Public Defender Jeff Adachi had transcended the bounds of normal government decorum and were now trading barbs that, in a more genteel time, would have resulted in tumblers of bourbon being emptied onto one another's faces and battles with ivory-topped canes. Elsbernd had grown a bit ornery at Adachi's request for a pair of paralegals for his backlogged office -- and the Public Defender's threat to start farming out cases to price

  February 5, 2009

• Public Defender Unapologetic About Playing Budget Chicken with Mayor, Says It's Impossible to Cut His Costs

  Public Defender Jeff Adachi has no qualms about refusing to adhere to Gavin Newsom's demands he cut his budgetIn recent weeks, SF Weekly (and others) have covered the increasingly nasty public exchanges between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the Board of Supervisors and Mayor's Office. In a nutshell, the Mayor's Office has asked all city departments to lop 25 percent off their yearly budgets. Only Adachi has said that he will not -- and cannot. In fact, as the Chronicle reported yesterday, the

  March 5, 2009

• Adachi Straps Brick to Accelerator in Game of Budget Chicken With Mayor

  Jeff Adachi personally showed up for this photo, tooAfter last week grumbling to SF Weekly that Mayor Gavin Newsom had welshed on his promise to provide a "couple of attorneys" to staff the city's fledgling Community Justice Center, Public Defender Jeff Adachi has resorted to theatrically ridiculing the mayor's pet court. Adachi may have crossed the Rubicon in his relationship with the mayor's office -- or perhaps that die was cast long ago -- when he yesterday showed up to staff the CJC himself

  March 11, 2009

• Public Defender Says Stint at Community Justice Center Is No Stunt -- Pledges to Return Every Day

  Jeff Adachi says see you at the CJCIt would raise eyebrows around the city if the fire chief grabbed a hose and doused a burning building, the planning director checked in for work behind the permitting counter, or the head of the Department of Public Works hosed human effluvia off city streets. And, no doubt, the good folks in the mayor's office noticed when Public Defender Jeff Adachi showed up earlier this week at the fledgling Community Justice Center to personally handle cases. The PD repea

  March 12, 2009

• Public Defender Still Showing Up Every Day at Community Justice Center, 'Keeping Streets Safe From Perfume'

  Jeff Adachi claims he's doing the work of three menJeff Adachi is walking through the Polk Street doors of the city's new Community Justice Center every day. The folks he's supposed to represent? Not as often. For the last two weeks -- in what is, depending upon whom you believe, either a theatrical thumbing of his nose at Mayor Gavin Newsom, a staffing necessity, or, perhaps a little of both -- San Francisco's public defender has been personally handling cases at the new CJC, a pet project of t

  March 20, 2009

• Nation's Public Defenders, Including San Francisco's, to Meet, Discuss Who's Getting Screwed Over the Worst

  Richard BuiPublic Defender Jeff Adachi has not yet mentioned growing up in an old water tank on a rubbish dumpIn a get-together that threatens to devolve into the legal equivalent of the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch -- "You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all 26 of us" ... "You were lucky to live in a room! We used to have to live in the corridor!" ... "Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor! We used to live in an old water tank on rubbish dump..." -- p

  March 27, 2009

• Congrats to World's Media Outlets for a Perfect Month (According to Mayor's Flack)

  Earlier this year, in part of what SF Weekly has labeled an "ongoing effort to avoid any give-and-take with an entity it does not control," Mayor Gavin Newsom's official city Web site unveiled a "corrections page" -- where the mayor's top spokesman, Nathan Ballard, would "set the record straight." If you're thinking it's unusual for a paid spokesman to deign to "set the record straight" then you're not alone. And if you don't find that strange, please reach in your pocket and check for your wall

  April 2, 2009

• We Called 511 Instead of 311 For Muni Advice -- And Didn't End Up In Zanzibar

  It turns out numerous city departments want to "take" Muni as well -- for millions of dollarsWillie Sutton is the man who is now less famous than his quote for posterity that he robbed banks "'Cause that's where the money is." Makes sense. And, as we learned at Supervisor Bevan Dufty's timely inquisition yesterday, other city departments billing the Municipal Transportation Agency to the tune of $80 million in "work orders" for services they may -- or may not -- render have the same rationale as

  April 9, 2009

• Something Bad Happened

  June 11, 2008

• The War On Gangs

  With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

  August 22, 2007

• Repertory Film Listings

  March 7, 2007

• Cell Phoney

  Making phone calls from jail, Harley Mike allegedly helped three prisoners escape and conned parole agents, sheriff's deputies, and judges.

  August 16, 2006

• Repertory Film Listings

  May 24, 2006

• Repertory Film Listings

  May 17, 2006

• Let It Bleed

  Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

  January 18, 2006

• Baring Equality

  The cases of a young defendant and a repeat offender attorney show power and privilege tip the scales

  November 9, 2005

• Welcome to Talkalot

  An Arthurian legend: in which the mayor espouses employment in modern high-tech industries while allowing a return to the industrial age

  November 2, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of December 3, 2003

  December 3, 2003

• The Great Left Hope

  Matt Gonzalez wants to be mayor. And he doesn't mind climbing over fellow progressives to get the gig.

  October 8, 2003

• Kamala's Karma

  She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.

  September 24, 2003

• The Chick Factor

  He's idealistic, he's good-looking, and he's even a great listener

  August 20, 2003

• Amores Perros

  A deportation scare gives Mexican filmmaker Carlos Bolado new insight into the film he's shooting in the Mission

  March 27, 2002

• Presumed Local

  This year's superb S.F. International Asian American Film Festival focuses on homegrown, U.S. films

  March 6, 2002

• The Chess Man of Market Street

  March 6, 2002

• The Last of the Burtons?

  They have dominated state and local politics for 50 years. Now, for the first time, the future of their "family business" is in doubt.

  February 6, 2002

• Et Tu, Mom?

  June 20, 2001

• Posterized: Public Defender Takes Budget Battle To the Streets

  In this space we've detailed the increasingly strident and -- at times -- surreal game of "budget chicken" between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the mayor and his allies. Mayor Gavin Newsom is set to submit a budget on June 1, and Newsom Spokesman Nathan Ballard has repeatedly said that if Adachi doesn't comply with the mayor's edict that all departments trim 25 percent off their budgets, it will simply be done for him on the first of June. Adachi has all along stated such a move would be penn

  May 21, 2009

• Pride Rides: The Mayor's Convoy, The Public Defender's Truck, The Assessor's Last-Minute Call -- and a Big Surprise From Eric Mar

  Janine KahnAn artist's rendition of Jeff Adachi's dump truckAnswers are trickling in from our elected officials on how they plan on cruising at this weekend's Pride Parade. Starting at the top, Mayor Gavin Newsom takes the same approach with vehicles as he does with spokesmen -- if one is good, then more is great! A letter from staunch Newsom supporter and District 6 supervisor candidate David Villa-Lobos disseminates info from the mayor's office to the hundreds of folks expected to march in the

  June 24, 2009

• Point Adachi: Controller's Audit of Public Defender's Office Bolsters Claim Farming Out Cases to Private Attorneys Would Cost City More

  Richard BuiJeff Adachi survived his probing by the city controller -- and is now proudly boasting the resultsSome of you may remember the very public tête-à-tête between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd earlier this year. Sparked by Adachi's request to hire more paralegals, Elsbernd said the public defender was "horrible" at keeping a budget, while Adachi replied that Elsbernd "has no idea what he's doing." The spat kicked off Adachi's ongoing feud with the mayor ov

  June 24, 2009

• Double Whammy: Not Only Did Supes Pull Money Away From Mayor's Pet Community Justice Center -- They Also Gave Some to Public Defender

  Audrey FukumanThe supes came for Newsom's pet court -- will they defund his whale next?By now, ardent followers of San Francisco politics may know that the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee yesterday moved to financially starve -- and thus kill -- Mayor Gavin Newsom's pet Community Justice Center. The left-leaning supes could probably offer 1,001 rationales as to why this was a good idea: This is yet another program the mayor saw in another city and felt he had to graft onto San

  June 25, 2009

• Interesting Double Bill at City Hall: Come for the Justice In Iran Rally -- and Stay to Raise Hell for the Public Defender

  Richard BuiIt's a protest double-header starring Jeff Adachi and the Iranian people...The beleaguered demonstrators of Iran could use a good public defender these days -- but, beyond that, we never thought to connect the totalitarian crackdowns in Tehran and the ongoing game of budget chicken between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mayor Gavin Newsom. Then we got releases from the same publicist urging us to attend a 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning rally on behalf of the Iranian demonstrators -- and

  July 21, 2009

• San Francisco Has a Budget -- and Chris Daly Has Left the Building

  Once more, for old time's sake. Lost somewhere between the news of Sacramento's impending raid upon municipal revenue streams and President Obama's comfy jeans, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors yesterday passed the city's contentious, agonizing $6.6 billion budget. This wasn't done without Supervisor Chris Daly's acknowledged "best friend" John Avalos -- whom he so designated during an awkward public browbeating/recitation of the second-most famous line from Jerry Maguire earlier this month

  July 22, 2009

• So, Top City Elected Officials Lost 2.45 Percent of Their Salaries? Here's What They Could Have Bought.

  Apparently, even this guy has been forced to give up $4.90 every time he passes "Go"​The official reason that 18 of the city's highest paid elected officials will take a minuscule pay cut was a recent city charter. But you could trace this one back to the Code of Hammurabi. Way down at the end, it states: "If ever the jaw-droppingly paid officials do lean on the unions to give wage concessions, lo, shall they give concessions also." This is right before the part about how an accused adulteress

  August 4, 2009

• Public Defender Says Tenderloin Drug Sweep Spells Trouble for Court System

  ​No sooner had newly minted San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon declared a much-publicized sweep of drug dealers in the city's notoriously crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood than doubters began speaking up. After all, as San Francisco Chronicle columnists Matier and Ross noted recently, making arrests in the Tenderloin has never been a problem for the SFPD -- the trick is to make important arrests, and make them stick.City residents have every right to ask what makes Gascon's dramatic a

  September 3, 2009

• Public Defender Plugs Kamikaze-Mixing Skills For Tonight's Barroom Fund-Raiser

  Adventurous drinkers should ask barkeep Chris Daly for 'The Jane Kim'​We can't publicize every last political fund-raiser in this city. But when you've got elected public officials slinging alcohol and touting their drink-mixing prowess -- we'll belly up to that bar. The League of Pissed-Off Voters tonight invades Elixir; guest bartenders include Public Defender Jeff Adachi, School Board member Jane Kim; everyone's favorite progressive firebrand and Fairfield multiple homeowner Chris Daly (abo

  September 16, 2009

• S.F. taxpayers may be struck with the legal tab for a failed Ingleside murder case

  September 23, 2009

• Police declare air guns illegal; S.F. public defender, D.A., and state law disagree

  October 7, 2009