16 Former Boudin Hires Fired in a Friday Afternoon Massacre by Brooke Jenkins
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1. 16 Former Boudin Hires Fired in a Friday Afternoon Massacre by Brooke Jenkins
Don’t call it a massacre, call it a reform prosecution genocide.? A week after being appointed and pledging to not fire employees until she met with them and discussed their roles, newly-appointed DA Brooke Jenkins scheduled 15-minute phone meetings with 16 Boudin hires and, one by one, fired them all.
2. SF DA Shuts Down Innocence Commission Among Other Purges
It was just in April when now former DA Chesa Boudin announced that Joaquin Ciria had been exonerated 32 years after being wrongly convicted of killing Felix Bastarrica.
3. Groundbreaking Agreement that Limits the Use of Cash Bail and Ensures Public Safety
A Court has agreed to greatly curtail the use of cash bail so that it will only rarely result in someone’s detention. People will not be detained unless, after reviewing evidence presented, a judge determines that releasing a person would create an unmanageable flight risk or danger to the public.
4. Police Misconduct Leads Contra Costa County DA to Admit to Dismissing Dozens of Cases in State, Federal Court
Dozens of state cases—and at least a dozen federal cases—have been “compromised” and will be halted or reversed because of police officer misconduct and actual crimes, said Contra Costa County prosecutors, who said the officers can’t be “trusted” as witnesses.
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