San Francisco police are abandoning their long-standing protocol for police lineups and photo spreads in favor of a new policy designed to reduce misidentifications, a move supported by the district attorney and public defender. Read More
The attorney for a San Francisco man accused of attacking his brother with a power drill two weeks after a homophobic assault on his neighbor said Wednesday her client is not a gay basher and might need a head doctor. Read More
This dogfight is far from over. San Francisco prosecutors have re-filed an attempted-murder charge against the Haight Street merchant who shot a customer in the back during a spat over a chubby, pink-sweater-wearing Chihuahua. Read More
“Alex Trebek is not a john.”The lawyer for the self-proclaimed veteran hooker who is accused of burglarizing the “Jeopardy!” host’s San Francisco hotel room has made it clear Trebek was not a client.Defense attorney Mark Jacobs said gossip website TMZ has been hounding him about whether the 71-year-old quiz king had ordered a call girl the night he was robbed July 26. Read More
Ken Garcia’s Friday column, “Saying one thing, doing another,” accuses me of “runaway government spending” and states that the Public Defender’s Office is “eating up a disproportionate share of San Francisco’s budget.” Read More
