A Misdemeanor in the Haight July 26, 2001: Officer flagged down by victim Joshua D. Said he had just been assaulted. Showed officer bite on…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
In my two cartons marked SFDA I find some lyrics. (Instead of keeping a diary, I used to write songs.) 911 Willie Brown took the…
A put-down of George Butterworth, the head of gang-related prosecutions during Terence Hallinan's eight years as San Francisco District Attorney, drew a response from AVA…
The media had made Terence Hallinan's leniency a political liability and he counterpunched by publicizing murder cases to the max. Not all his punches landed.…
You'd think government employees, especially high-ranking officials, would feel relatively fortunate. Their salaries are decent and they enjoy job security unavailable in the private sector.…
Last week the New Yorker posted an article that credited Kamala Harris for blazing the trail for today's "progressive" district attorneys. In a letter that won't…
The New Yorker posted a piece Nov. 20 that reduced Terence Hallinan to a non-person. It had an odd title, "Kamala Harris and the Noble Path…
On a typical morning in Department 10, one of the four municipal courts on the first floor of the Hall of Justice, 26 people wait…
The Tran case had been on hold for more than three years when it finally went to trial in the fall of 2000. The corporate…