The District Attorney’s Office withdrew its threat to charge a public defender with contempt of court on Monday after the mistaken release to the media last week of sealed court transcripts. Defense attorney Mark Jacobs told a judge that he had been trying only to send a portion of a memo critical of the Police Department’s DNA lab to an SF Weekly reporter. Jacobs said he hadn’t realized that the sealed transcripts were also attached and was “horrified” about the accident. Read More