The Adachi leak: What you need to know about the public defender’s death and the raid on a journalist

Evan Sernoffsky May 18, 2019

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Adachi-leak-The-death-of-a-celebrated-public-13854192.php

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The sudden death of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi in February jolted the city and its criminal justice system. As one of the only elected public defenders in the nation, Adachi had expanded the traditional role of the office, fighting for legal reform, pushing for police accountability and fiercely promoting civil rights — particularly for the poor and people of color.

Three months later, it is the leak of a police report on Adachi’s death — and the city’s response to that leak — that is stirring controversy and roiling San Francisco politics.

… His (Adachi's) office won an acquittal for Jose Inez Garcia Zarate in the Pier 14 killing of Kate Steinle. Garcia Zarate was in the country illegally and had been previously deported five times.

This is an excellent article. It lays out the chain of events in a very systematic linear pattern.

Here's my first response - I've already been corresponding with a SF resident about it.

The police are actually the good guys, but they didn't do the job right. What they really needed to do was send in a highly trained intel team to go through the files on site. Instead they cut some serious legal corners, to get the equipment.

The reason - Carmody might have more information on Adachi than he's letting on and 'somebody' wants more information regarding the Kate Steinle verdict.

It would appear that there are many involved in the cover-up and manipulation of this trial that probably begins at least at the Fmr Governor Jerry Brown's office all the way to local city offices.

Picture - upper left - Jeff Adachi

upper middle - San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott

lower left - San Francisco journalist Bryan Carmody