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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged a former police officer with homicide last year. This was a milestone in a country where police are so

Chesa Boudin’s first year as San Francisco’s District Attorney ended in controversy. Today, in the latest installment of The Progressive Prosecutor , we

The pandemic plus advocates, organizers, and a determined district attorney all made it possible to shut down an unsafe San Francisco jail. But it also

Eye on Texas: A House Divided Rogelio Chavira is for Biden. Dolores Chacon is for Trump. The border fence passes through the couple’s backyard. Rogelio Chavira is for Biden. Dolores Chacon is for Trump. The border fence passes through the couple’s backyard. A House Divided Rogelio Chavira is for Biden. Dolores Chacon is for Trump. The border fence passes through the couple’s backyard. Henry Craver “We’ve gotten really good at tuning each other out. But we respect each other. I close...

Previous San Francisco district attorneys have embraced cannabis before it was legal, rebuked the death penalty, and introduced algorithms to combat racial

Today, we look at how a decision Chesa Boudin's parents made shaped his path from the public defender's office to the prosecutor's seat. It's the first

The campaign chairwoman has been with the 2020 hopeful through it all - and knows the way forward. Written By: Washington Post | × Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and her sister Maya Harris. Washington Post photo by Melina Mara. DES MOINES — It was the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and Kamala Harris was explaining to her sister, Maya, that campaigns are like prisons. Shed been recounting how in the days before the Democratic debate in Miami life had actually slowed down to a manageable ...

December 19, 2020 Split Sixth Circuit panel decides FIRST STEP Acts less severe 924(c) mandatory minimums are applicable to resentencing In this post a full two years ago right after the enactment for the FIRST STEP Act, I flagged some issues regarding which "pipeline" defendants might be able to benefit from the Acts reduced sentencing terms.  (By "pipeline," I meant cases in which offense conduct took place before passage of the FIRST STEP Act, but a sentence was not fully finalized when th...

"Transforming the Progressive Prosecutor Movement" The title of this post is the title of this notable paper newly posted to SSRN and authored by Darcy Covert. Here is its abstract: It is a near universally accepted principle that prosecutors are the most powerful actors in the criminal system.  In response, a new movement has emerged: Its proponents argue that, by electing progressive district attorneys, we can use the power of prosecutors to end mass incarceration and restore fairness to the...

Rifle. >> emily: may be. i think that might be a regulation rather than mandatory confiscation. if i could focus on kamala harris for a second, for someone who has had decades of criminal justice experience, i find her flip-flopping very confusing. she started with the take back and now the buyback, which makes no sense. she builds herself up as a "progressive prosecutor." but it was a status quo. under her reign, there were a lot of atrocities that happened that now she has distanced herself fr...