The former police chief who was appointed district attorney received the confidence of voters Wednesday when preliminary ranked-choice results gave him the win with 63.6 percent of the vote, according to the Elections Department.
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The District Attorney’s Office is appealing a judge’s ruling ordering it to release a memorandum by a former consultant that reportedly criticized the Police Department’s DNA testing lab.
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District Attorney George Gascón’s stance on the death penalty came under fire Tuesday.David Onek, who has pledged to forswear the death penalty if elected district attorney, has accused Gascón of flip-flopping on the issue.
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District Attorney George Gascón is coming under fire once again from three of his opponents in the November election.This time Sharmin Bock, David Onek and Bill Fazio are calling on Gascón to publicly release a memo from former prosecutor and DNA expert Rockne Harmon, who was hired by the District Attorney’s Office after the Police Department’s 2010 crime lab fiasco.
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Three of District Attorney George Gascón’s opponents in the November election pounced on Gascón’s statement late Friday that he was done investigating allegations of corruption regarding a campaign to get Mayor Ed Lee to run for mayor.
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Mayoral candidates John Avalos and Dennis Herrera netted the first- and second-place endorsements, respectively, on Wednesday night at the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee meeting. The committee opted not to endorse a third candidate despite The City’s ranked-choice voting system.
For district attorney, David Onek was the committee’s first choice and Sharmin Bock its second, with no third candidate chosen.
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Three of District Attorney George Gascón’s opponents in the November election banded together Wednesday, issuing a joint statement asking that he recuse himself from any investigation of whether campaign finance laws were broken by groups pushing for Mayor Ed Lee to run for election.
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A latecomer to the district attorney race, Vu Trinh brings a new flavor to a tightly contested battle between a career cop, a career prosecutor and a career scholar.
Trinh, 43, a criminal defense attorney with a daily meditation practice, raised eyebrows and more than a few chuckles at his first debate last week with a disarmingly honest style and seemingly unrehearsed, if not unusual, answers.
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Having the right qualifications to be District Attorney of San Francisco is crucial. With that in mind, we give you the musical tastes of the candidates.
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The three major candidates for district attorney submitted their early 2011 fundraising numbers Monday, and while all raised significant amounts, expenditures left incumbent George Gascón with far less available cash than his competitors.
Factoring in campaign debts and challenger David Onek’s earlier fundraising, he and fellow candidate Sharmin Bock each now have slightly more than $150,000 on hand, compared to about $77,000 for Gascón.
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