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After DA Boudin Recall, SF Public Defender Pledges Commitment to ‘Advocating for System-Impacted Community Members’

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|Date: June 16, 2022
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After DA Boudin Recall, SF Public Defender Pledges Commitment to ‘Advocating for System-Impacted Community Members’

By Jaanvi Kaur SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Post the successful recall last week of San Francisco District Attorne ...

By Jaanvi Kaur SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Post the successful recall last week of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, SF Public Defender Mano Raju, according to a series of tweets, pledged the PD O ...

June 16, 2022
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Court Summarily Denies Public Defender Suit for Speedy Trials in San Francisco Court (Updated)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 17, 2022
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Court Summarily Denies Public Defender Suit for Speedy Trials in San Francisco Court (Updated)

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last week a Contra County Superior Court judge ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last week a Contra County Superior Court judge summarily denied a writ of mandate filed by San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju among othe ...

May 17, 2022
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Coalition Urges San Francisco Police Commission to End Racially-Biased Pretext Stops

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 12, 2022
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Coalition Urges San Francisco Police Commission to End Racially-Biased Pretext Stops

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Ahead of a Police Commission meeting set for W ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Ahead of a Police Commission meeting set for Wednesday night, a coalition of leaders called for an end to racially biased traffic stops, also ...

May 12, 2022
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SF Launches ‘Be The Jury’ Pilot Program on Monday to Compensate Low-Income Jurors $100 a Day

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2022
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SF Launches ‘Be The Jury’ Pilot Program on Monday to Compensate Low-Income Jurors $100 a Day

Special to the Vanguard San Francisco, CA – A program that is the first of its kind in California that wi ...

Special to the Vanguard San Francisco, CA – A program that is the first of its kind in California that will remove barriers to serving on a jury and increase economic and racial diversity of juries la ...

March 04, 2022
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SF Public Defender Calls for the Immediate Destruction and Independent Investigation of Illegal DNA Database

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 19, 2022
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SF Public Defender Calls for the Immediate Destruction and Independent Investigation of Illegal DNA Database

By Vanguard Staff San Francisco, CA – This week it came to light that the San Francisco Police Crime Lab ...

By Vanguard Staff San Francisco, CA – This week it came to light that the San Francisco Police Crime Lab has been using an illegally created database—compiled with DNA collected from people alleging s ...

February 19, 2022
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DA’s Office and Public Defender in San Francisco Push Back at Loss of Police Oversight

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 04, 2022
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DA’s Office and Public Defender in San Francisco Push Back at Loss of Police Oversight

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Responding to the announcement of Police Chief ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Responding to the announcement of Police Chief Bill Scott on Wednesday who announced the police were pulling out of the MOU, DA Chesa Boudin ...

February 04, 2022
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District Attorney Boudin, Public Defender Raju, Supe Prez Walton Criticize Mayor’s Plan to Send More Cops into Tenderloin District

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|Date: December 27, 2021
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District Attorney Boudin, Public Defender Raju, Supe Prez Walton Criticize Mayor’s Plan to Send More Cops into Tenderloin District

By Paige Laver SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Just a few days before Christmas, District Attorney Chesa Boudin joine ...

By Paige Laver SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Just a few days before Christmas, District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined other elected officials and activists to criticize Mayor London Breed’s upcoming plan to incr ...

December 27, 2021
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SF Leaders Pushed Back on Mayor’s Emergency Decree Arguing That Incarceration and Policing Are Not the Solution to Drugs and Mental Health Disorders

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 22, 2021
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SF Leaders Pushed Back on Mayor’s Emergency Decree Arguing That Incarceration and Policing Are Not the Solution to Drugs and Mental Health Disorders

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In a press conference on Monday, leaders pushe ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In a press conference on Monday, leaders pushed back on the San Francisco Mayor, London Breed’s declaration of a state of emergency. DA Chesa ...

December 22, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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SF Mayor Declares State of Emergency in the Tenderloin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 18, 2021
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SF Mayor Declares State of Emergency in the Tenderloin

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Following through after her strong words earli ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Following through after her strong words earlier in the week, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared an official State of Emergency in the ...

December 18, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: SF Public Defender Pushes Back Against Mayor Breed’s Comments

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 16, 2021
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Guest Commentary: SF Public Defender Pushes Back Against Mayor Breed’s Comments

By Mano Raju Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed launched emergency police interv ...

By Mano Raju Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed launched emergency police intervention in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. “It’s time the reign of criminals who are d ...

December 16, 2021
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Charges Dismissed against Motorcyclist Falsely Accused of Assaulting Officer; Public Defender Video Shows Police ‘Fabricated’ Story, ‘Brutalized’ Man

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 15, 2021
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Charges Dismissed against Motorcyclist Falsely Accused of Assaulting Officer; Public Defender Video Shows Police ‘Fabricated’ Story, ‘Brutalized’ Man

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO – Dramatic videos were released Tuesday by the San Francisco Public D ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO – Dramatic videos were released Tuesday by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office showing police “brutalized” David Cordero nearly three years before “fabricati ...

December 15, 2021
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Jury Finds 81-Year-Old Man Not Guilty of Attempted Murder of Ex-Wife; Public Defender Office Blames Police for Failure to ‘Investigate’ Case, Calls Ex-Wife the Aggressor

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|Date: November 23, 2021
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Jury Finds 81-Year-Old Man Not Guilty of Attempted Murder of Ex-Wife; Public Defender Office Blames Police for Failure to ‘Investigate’ Case, Calls Ex-Wife the Aggressor

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA –Damien Alvarez, 81, was found not guilty by a jury of attempted ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA –Damien Alvarez, 81, was found not guilty by a jury of attempted murder and other charges he was charged with after he and his ex-wife fought over a knife she w ...

November 23, 2021
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Jury Finds Customer Not Guilty of Charges; Video Shows He Defended Self from Car Repair Shop Owner’s ‘Aggression’

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 11, 2021
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Jury Finds Customer Not Guilty of Charges; Video Shows He Defended Self from Car Repair Shop Owner’s ‘Aggression’

The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Video surveillance of an “encounter” between a car repair shop own ...

The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Video surveillance of an “encounter” between a car repair shop owner and client was key to a decision Wednesday by a San Francisco jury that acquitted the client ...

November 11, 2021
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Jury Deliberates Just 5 Hours to Reach Not Guilty Finding for Man Waiting 17 Months for Trial – Public Defender Blames Superior Court for Delay

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|Date: October 29, 2021
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Jury Deliberates Just 5 Hours to Reach Not Guilty Finding for Man Waiting 17 Months for Trial – Public Defender Blames Superior Court for Delay

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – It only took a San Francisco County Superior Court jury five ho ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – It only took a San Francisco County Superior Court jury five hours to determine a man – awaiting a trial nearly a year and a half – was not guilty of all char ...

October 29, 2021
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Last ICE Detainee in Yuba County Jail Released – Congress Asks DHS to Shutter All ICE Detention Centers in CA

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 28, 2021
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Last ICE Detainee in Yuba County Jail Released – Congress Asks DHS to Shutter All ICE Detention Centers in CA

By The Vanguard Staff MARYSVILLE, CA – The last person detained by ICE at the Yuba County Jail was releas ...

By The Vanguard Staff MARYSVILLE, CA – The last person detained by ICE at the Yuba County Jail was released Wednesday – along with news that members of Congress are asking all ICE detention centers in ...

October 28, 2021
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SF Public Defender, Private Attorney Team Up to Exonerate Man Who Spent 46 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 22, 2021
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SF Public Defender, Private Attorney Team Up to Exonerate Man Who Spent 46 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A San Francisco public defender and a private attorney found ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A San Francisco public defender and a private attorney found evidence and witnesses in and outside the U.S. that now has led to charges being vacated agains ...

October 22, 2021
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Governor Signs Measure to Hike Juror Pay to $100 a Day in SF Pilot Project – Goal Is to Increase Economic and Racial Diversity of Juries

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 13, 2021
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Governor Signs Measure to Hike Juror Pay to $100 a Day in SF Pilot Project – Goal Is to Increase Economic and Racial Diversity of Juries

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A state legislative attempt to make juries more reflective of t ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A state legislative attempt to make juries more reflective of the community – to be tried out first in San Francisco – became a possibility last Friday when G ...

October 13, 2021
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Commentary: San Francisco Courts Are a Mess, Have Been a Mess, and the Problem is Not on the DA

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 12, 2021
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Commentary: San Francisco Courts Are a Mess, Have Been a Mess, and the Problem is Not on the DA

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – It was a bombshell transcript. It gave the op ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – It was a bombshell transcript. It gave the opponents of DA Chesa Boudin a great amount of fodder to use against the progressive DA in their ...

October 12, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Bill That Will Drastically Change How Gang Charges Work Signed into Law by Governor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 09, 2021
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Bill That Will Drastically Change How Gang Charges Work Signed into Law by Governor

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – Governor Newsom continued to re-define California ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – Governor Newsom continued to re-define California law on Friday, signing one of the seminal criminal justice reform bills on the docket this ter ...

October 09, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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On the Fourth Try California Finally Repeals Mandatory Minimums for Non-Violent Drug Offenses

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2021
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On the Fourth Try California Finally Repeals Mandatory Minimums for Non-Violent Drug Offenses

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – If you thought ending mandatory minimums and g ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – If you thought ending mandatory minimums and giving the discretion of sentencing back to judges in cases of non-violent drug offenses was a n ...

October 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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