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Court Watch: Statewide Reforms on Solitary Confinement and Bail
Senator Yee Introduces Bill to Ban Solitary Confinement for Children Last week, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) introduced SB 970, which would define and limit the use of solitary confinement on...
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The Role of Implicit Bias and Police Work Revealed in New Research
Last summer, we published a speech by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi who spoke to an audience about the role of implicit bias and how it impacted the Trayvon Martin case. In his speech, Mr....
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When a Juror Lies During Voir Dire
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi receiving his Vanguard Justice Award last November in Davis. By Jeff Adachi In his legal thriller “The Runaway Jury,” author John Grisham tells a fictionalized...
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Why Audrie’s Law is Bad for California
Audrie’s Law Press Conference with Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen By Jeff Adachi and Roger Chan There is an old adage among judges: Hard cases make bad law. Often, when a terrible crime happens, there is a...
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Laura’s Law Can Help Decriminalize Mental Illness
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi receiving his Vanguard Justice Award last November in Davis. By Jeff Adachi Mental illness is not a crime. Assisted outpatient treatment, also known as Laura’s...
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Defense Attorneys Should Not Be Punished For Doing Their Jobs
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi receiving his Vanguard Justice Award last November in Davis. By Jeff Adachi The verdict is in: Criminal defense attorneys are being punished for doing their...
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SF Public Defender’s Office Makes Changes to Address Immigration Issues
(from press release) In a historic move, the San Francisco Public Defender’s office has hired a full-time civil immigration attorney to help clients facing deportation or similar consequences, Public...
View ArticleJails Are Filled With Those Who Can’t Make Bail
By Jeff Adachi and Naneen Karraker You may think jail is a place for convicted criminals. You would be wrong. In San Francisco, 85 percent of the roughly 1,300 inmates in county jail haven’t been...
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Vanguard Analysis: Jeff Adachi Discusses Whether Prop. 47 Ends Mass...
Jeff Adachi receives the Vanguard Social Justice Award in November 2013 Last week voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 47, which reduces drug and petty theft crimes to misdemeanors. On Monday,...
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SF Public Defender on the Indictment Decision
Jeff Adachi receiving the Vanguard Justice Award in November 2013 By Jeff Adachi As San Francisco Public Defender, I am deeply disappointed with the grand jury’s failure to indict Darren Wilson for the...
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Grand Jury Again Fails to Indict Officer in Death, This Time in a New York...
Candles are seen at the memorial of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, July 21, 2014. In a moment that has become as sadly iconic as the hands up in the air from Ferguson, Eric Garner repeatedly...
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My View: Do Black Lives Matter?
Public defenders become the latest group to show solidarity with the movement Across the nation, countless protests have occurred with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter.” At one level, it is fascinating...
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Inmates in San Francisco Forced Into Gladiator-Style Fights
Release from San Francisco Public Defender’s Officer A San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputy who was the subject of a past sexual assault lawsuit has been accused of an array of misconduct, including forcing...
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Commentary: San Francisco Law Enforcement Suddenly Finds Itself Under Fire
When Ferguson took to the news last August following the shooting death of Michael Brown, few people had heard of the suburban St. Louis community, but the problems of a largely white police and city...
View Article‘Stop Snitchin’ Culture Plagues Law Enforcement
By Jeff Adachi The most influential Stop Snitchin’ campaign in San Francisco isn’t in the Bayview or the Tenderloin. It lives on the streets and in the jails, wielding power over those you might not...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Police Issues in Davis and Beyond
It is hard to know exactly what to take from this. However, on one side of the MRAP debate have been those who argue that there is a clear need by the Davis Police to have an MRAP. This certainly isn’t...
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SF DA at Justice Summit Calls for Body Cameras, Video for All Arrests
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi introduces the topic of Race and Reform This week the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office held its annual Justice Summit. The theme this year was the very...
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Eye on the Courts: Why Bail Reform Could Be the Key to Changing the System
Of all of the problems that face our current criminal justice system, one may have to go down the list to think about bail reform – however, it is both a bigger problem and a bigger inequity than one...
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The Over-Policing of Black Women
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi discussed Race and Reform two weeks ago in San Francisco By Jeff Adachi While citizens demand answers for the police killings of unarmed men of color...
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Study: Shocking Racial Disparities in SF Courts
African-Americans in San Francisco are more likely to await trial behind bars than their white counterparts and face harsher punishment once convicted, according to a new study commissioned by the San...
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