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Public Defender Mano Raju Condemns Court Backlog; 85 % of Jailed Not Convicted, Just Waiting Day in Court

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|Date: May 07, 2021
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Public Defender Mano Raju Condemns Court Backlog; 85 % of Jailed Not Convicted, Just Waiting Day in Court

by Elina Lingappa SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Public Defender Mano Raju revealed San Francisco County jails are i ...

by Elina Lingappa SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Public Defender Mano Raju revealed San Francisco County jails are illegally keeping individuals in jail past any acceptable date, causing a discussion of the long ...

May 07, 2021
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Public Defenders Group Praises New Immigration Legislation, But Criticizes Police ‘Contact’ Details – Urges ‘Defang’ Amendments

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|Date: March 15, 2021
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Public Defenders Group Praises New Immigration Legislation, But Criticizes Police ‘Contact’ Details – Urges ‘Defang’ Amendments

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A coalition of public defenders gave a thumbs up, and thumbs down to new congressiona ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A coalition of public defenders gave a thumbs up, and thumbs down to new congressional legislation dealing with immigrants that has just been announced, known as the U.S. Citizensh ...

March 15, 2021
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SFDA Boudin Reassures Community Safety, Notes Accomplishments In Virtual Town Hall

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|Date: March 05, 2021
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SFDA Boudin Reassures Community Safety, Notes Accomplishments In Virtual Town Hall

By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin hosted his monthly vi ...

By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin hosted his monthly virtual town hall here, answering 13 community member’s questions surrounding Asian American hate ...

March 05, 2021
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SFDA Chesa Boudin Seeks $2.3 Million Fentanyl Task Force; SFPD Mano Raju ‘Firmly Opposed’ to Proposal

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|Date: March 04, 2021
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SFDA Chesa Boudin Seeks $2.3 Million Fentanyl Task Force; SFPD Mano Raju ‘Firmly Opposed’ to Proposal

By Elina Lingappa and Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s offic ...

By Elina Lingappa and Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office is implementing a new task force to address the city’s pressing fentanyl epidemic, calling fo ...

March 04, 2021
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Adachi Project Releases ‘One Eleven Taylor’ Documentary Depicting Dangerous Conditions at SF Private For-Profit Halfway House

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|Date: February 19, 2021
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Adachi Project Releases ‘One Eleven Taylor’ Documentary Depicting Dangerous Conditions at SF Private For-Profit Halfway House

By Esha Kher SAN FRANCISCO – The Adachi Project, an initiative started by the late San Francisco Public D ...

By Esha Kher SAN FRANCISCO – The Adachi Project, an initiative started by the late San Francisco Public Defender to reveal unseen perspectives of the U.S. criminal legal system, released its first doc ...

February 19, 2021
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San Francisco Public Defender Launches ‘The Adachi Project’

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|Date: February 05, 2021
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San Francisco Public Defender Launches ‘The Adachi Project’

Special to the Vanguard - First-of-Its-Kind Media Initiative Spotlights Public Defenders and Underreprese ...

Special to the Vanguard - First-of-Its-Kind Media Initiative Spotlights Public Defenders and Underrepresented Perspectives of the Criminal Legal System in Tribute to Late-Public Defender and Filmmaker ...

February 05, 2021
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Letter: Involuntary Prison Transfers

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|Date: December 12, 2020
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Letter: Involuntary Prison Transfers

Editor's note: The following letter was submitted on behalf of a number of incarcerated people at San Que ...

Editor's note: The following letter was submitted on behalf of a number of incarcerated people at San Quentin regarding a new involuntary transfer policy. Dear Governor Newsom, We represent a large nu ...

December 12, 2020
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‘Blistering’ Federal Court Order Castigates ICE for ‘Dangerous Inactions’ of COVID-19 at Mesa Verde Detainee Center

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|Date: December 04, 2020
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‘Blistering’ Federal Court Order Castigates ICE for ‘Dangerous Inactions’ of COVID-19 at Mesa Verde Detainee Center

SAN FRANCISCO – In what lawyers for detainees at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center call a “blistering” ...

SAN FRANCISCO – In what lawyers for detainees at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center call a “blistering” order, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California verbally castigated ICE ...

December 04, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 84: San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju

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|Date: November 16, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 84: San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the ...

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the only elected public defender in California was Mano Raju. His first 18 months has seen not onl ...

November 16, 2020
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ELECTRIC CAR CONFUSION: SF PD Wins Acquittal for Client Accused of Carjacking and Robbery

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|Date: October 29, 2020
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ELECTRIC CAR CONFUSION: SF PD Wins Acquittal for Client Accused of Carjacking and Robbery

By Dylan Ferguson SAN FRANCISCO – Valentine Sua, 28, was acquitted this week at trial in San Francisco Co ...

By Dylan Ferguson SAN FRANCISCO – Valentine Sua, 28, was acquitted this week at trial in San Francisco County Superior Court on all carjacking and robbery charges stemming from an incident in May. It ...

October 29, 2020
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SF Public Defender Criticizes Civil Injunctions Aimed at Drug Dealers – Argues They Don’t Solve ‘Actual’ Problem

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2020
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SF Public Defender Criticizes Civil Injunctions Aimed at Drug Dealers – Argues They Don’t Solve ‘Actual’ Problem

By Pavan Potti SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Attorney Dennis Herrera recently took a big step in the city ...

By Pavan Potti SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Attorney Dennis Herrera recently took a big step in the city’s ongoing battle with drug dealing in the neighborhood of Tenderloin by filing civil injunctio ...

September 25, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

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|Date: July 10, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of ...

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide and over 1,500 people who are incarcerated or work in ...

July 10, 2020
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Push To Restore Zero Bail in San Francisco Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases in SF Jails

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|Date: July 09, 2020
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Push To Restore Zero Bail in San Francisco Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases in SF Jails

Up until the last month, Sa Francisco had managed its jail population better than most counties and avoid ...

Up until the last month, Sa Francisco had managed its jail population better than most counties and avoid large numbers of COVID cases in part because they managed to reduce the jail population. But ...

July 09, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Office Mobilizing to Release People from San Quentin Amid Escalating COVID-19 Outbreak

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|Date: July 02, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Office Mobilizing to Release People from San Quentin Amid Escalating COVID-19 Outbreak

Special To the Vanguard With 2,582 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California pri ...

Special To the Vanguard With 2,582 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide, and over 1,100 people incarcerated in San Quentin testing positive, the San Fra ...

July 02, 2020
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SF Public Defender Expresses Concern over Ongoing Public Health Crisis Measures in the SF Jails

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|Date: April 30, 2020
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SF Public Defender Expresses Concern over Ongoing Public Health Crisis Measures in the SF Jails

(The following is a letter dated April 29 from SF Public Defender Manohar Raju to Sheriff Paul Miyamoto). ...

(The following is a letter dated April 29 from SF Public Defender Manohar Raju to Sheriff Paul Miyamoto). By Manohar Raju As we near two months into this pandemic and resulting shelter-in-place orders ...

April 30, 2020
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Attorneys and Other Activists Denounce ICE Arrest at Courthouses across California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 10, 2020
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Attorneys and Other Activists Denounce ICE Arrest at Courthouses across California

SAN FRANCISCO - Last week ICE arrested a San Francisco resident in front of the Hall of Justice. This, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last week ICE arrested a San Francisco resident in front of the Hall of Justice. This, as well as similar incidents in other parts of Northern California, led speakers from the FREE S ...

March 10, 2020
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Mother of Mario Woods Administers Oath to San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju at Packed Community Inauguration

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|Date: March 01, 2020
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Mother of Mario Woods Administers Oath to San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju at Packed Community Inauguration

(From Press Release - SF Public Defender's Office) – On February 27, 2020, in front of a crowd of over 30 ...

(From Press Release - SF Public Defender's Office) – On February 27, 2020, in front of a crowd of over 300 people at Brava Theater, San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju took his oath of office and ...

March 01, 2020
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Guest Commentary: How Long Must S.F. Wait to Root out Police Corruption?

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|Date: February 08, 2020
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Guest Commentary: How Long Must S.F. Wait to Root out Police Corruption?

By Mano Raju, Public Defender of San Francisco Over a year ago, California finally acknowledged the publi ...

By Mano Raju, Public Defender of San Francisco Over a year ago, California finally acknowledged the public’s right to know about police corruption in our communities. Specifically, SB 1421 made public ...

February 08, 2020
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Jury Acquits Man after Public Defender Calls Delayed SFPD Investigation & Identification into Doubt

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|Date: January 11, 2020
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Jury Acquits Man after Public Defender Calls Delayed SFPD Investigation & Identification into Doubt

(From Press Release – SF Public Defender’s Office) - On Monday, January 6, 2020, a jury acquitted Vihn Tr ...

(From Press Release – SF Public Defender’s Office) - On Monday, January 6, 2020, a jury acquitted Vihn Tran, 38, of felony charges related to a nighttime attack near Union Square in October 2018. Depu ...

January 11, 2020
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Jury Acquits Man on All Counts – Prosecutors Wanted a Life Sentence for Tossing Pebbles

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|Date: November 21, 2019
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Jury Acquits Man on All Counts – Prosecutors Wanted a Life Sentence for Tossing Pebbles

(From Press Release – SF Public Defender) – On Friday, November 15, 2019, a jury found Carlos Gordon not ...

(From Press Release – SF Public Defender) – On Friday, November 15, 2019, a jury found Carlos Gordon not guilty on all counts of assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, and a misdemeano ...

November 21, 2019
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