San Francisco Prosecutor's Office Shake-up after 1700 Drug Cases Called into Question

Additional infor­ma­tion is com­ing out regard­ing the scope of Deborah Madden’s recent crim­i­nal his­tory con­vic­tion, drug/alcohol use, and drug evi­dence theft. It appears that upwards of 1,700 cases have had Ms. Madden’s involve­ment since her crim­i­nal domes­tic vio­lence con­vic­tion, pre­vi­ously not dis­closed to prosecutors.

The then chief of the drug crimes divi­sion of the prosecutor’s office

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San Francisco Crime Lab Fiasco Now a Political Pawn

An inter­ested blog entry on the Sacramento Bee by Susan Ferriss points out that one Democrat can­di­date for California Lt. Governor is using the San Fransisco PD drug lab sit­u­a­tion to fur­ther her campaign.

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn is ramp­ing up her use of San Francisco’s trou­bled crime lab in her quest for the

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San Francisco

In-line with the rec­om­men­da­tions of the NAS Report, San Francisco is look­ing to remove the crime lab from the police depart­ment. Hopefully more com­mu­ni­ties will come to this conclusion.

A new pro­posal before San Francisco lead­ers seeks to make the city’s crime lab­o­ra­tory inde­pen­dent of the police depart­ment, in light of recent prob­lems that have shut

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