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Guest Commentary: Unequal Justice in the Age of Reform
Jeff Adachi speaking at Hastings in 2016 By Jeff Adachi California’s criminal justice reforms are starting to bear fruit, but the harvest isn’t equally sweet for all San Franciscans. The City’s felony...
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Federal Judge Orders Man Released After SF Courts Repeatedly Fail to Follow...
(From Press Release) – A federal judge this week ordered authorities to immediately free a homeless man from jail after he was repeatedly denied a constitutionally adequate bail hearing in San...
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Guest Commentary: California’s District Attorneys Must Work to End Money Bail
By Jeff Adachi While the movement to reform California’s unconstitutional money bail system gains momentum, it met resistance earlier this month from a familiar opponent. In an extraordinary court...
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10 Things Starbucks Could Do to Combat Racism
By Jeff Adachi Since a video depicting the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks went viral, Starbucks has issued a written apology, CEO Kevin Johnson has met with the men, the store manager who...
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The Right to Plead No Contest in a Criminal Case
Jeff Adachi speaking at Hastings in 2016 By Jeff Adachi & Yali Corea-Levy California law provides for three common pleas in a criminal case: not guilty, guilty and no contest. In the San Francisco...
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Prosecutor Andrew Ganz Suspended from Bar for Prosecutorial Misconduct during...
Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. –Edgar Argo (From Press Release) – San Francisco prosecutor Andrew Ganz has been found guilty of prosecutorial misconduct through...
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San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi Dead at Age 59
Jeff Adachi speaking in 2016 at Hastings College SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the only elected public defender in the state, died last night as he was traveling. According to KGO-TV, he died of a...
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Thousands Show Up for Vigil for Fallen Leader Jeff Adachi
Matt Gonzalez, the acting public defender right now, spoke briefly It has been less than a week since the stunning news of the death of Jeff Adachi, and on Wednesday night thousands of people packed...
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Guest Commentary: One Simple Way To Hold Bad Prosecutors Accountable
By Jeff Adachi and Peter Calloway State bar organizations have the power to discipline prosecutors, but they studiously ignore bad behavior. A man is accused of stealing a laptop. On the prosecutor’s...
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Independent Review Finds Adachi’s Death Natural
From Press Release – Robert Chan, an attorney for the family of Jeff Adachi, is releasing three independent reports that raise serious questions about Jeff Adachi’s autopsy, which was conducted by the...
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City Officials Unveiled ‘Jeff Adachi Way’– New Street to Honor the Late San...
(From Press Release – Public Defender’s Office) – On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Public Defender Mano Raju, Supervisor Matt Haney, the Adachi family, and community supporters of the late San...
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San Francisco Public Defender Launches ‘The Adachi Project’
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 Jeff Adachi Special to...
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Adachi Project Releases ‘One Eleven Taylor’ Documentary Depicting Dangerous...
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...
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Book Release: Jeff Adachi’s The Case of San Francisco Public Defender Frank...
By Lovepreet Dhinsa & Layla Mustafa SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office was founded in 1921 with one attorney—former police Officer Frank Egan, but his popular reputation...
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Adachi Project Releases ‘From Inside’– 3rd in a Series Dedicated to...
By Ankita Joshi SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The COVID-19 pandemic has especially impacted those who are incarcerated locally, creating an isolating experience mixed with fear and anxiety about the next steps...
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Guest Commentary: Why Mano Raju Deserves to Be Re-elected San Francisco...
Mano Raju with Jeff Adachi (left) By Matt Gonzalez I have been closely associated with the San Francisco Public Defender office for over three decades, including serving for the past decade as the...
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Commentary: Jury Gets It Right in Acquitting Immigrant in the Killing of Steinle
My View: Prosecution Overreached Trying to Get Murder Charge in Politically Charged Case It was a politically charged case from the start, that pitted the politics of Trump and anti-immigration...
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Court’s Game-Changing Decision on Bail Based on SF Man’s Case
(From Press Release) – A case involving a San Francisco retiree jailed for allegedly stealing cologne has sparked a legal decision that promises to transform California’s approach to bail, San...
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He Stole $5 and Cologne. Bail was Set at $350,000
By Jeff Adachi and Chesa Boudin The case of a San Francisco senior citizen accused of stealing $5 and a bottle of cologne from his neighbor reveals the obvious injustice of California’s bail system,...
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Money Bail Survives in California because of the Myths Perpetuated by the...
By the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Myth # 1: Most people who are in jail are there because they have been convicted of a crime. In California, 66 percent of people in county jails have not...
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