Jenkins: San Francisco Superior Court Is ‘Complicit’ in ‘Dereliction of Duty
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- Publish Date:
- October 23, 2025
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- Hossain, Sara
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- KQED
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Summary
Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, said the public defender’s office’s move is not uncommon when understaffed, and a similar thing happened during the tenure of a previous public defender, Jeff Adachi.
“An important thing is that it’s not just a question of the right to counsel [at] a trial, it’s the right to effective counsel under the Constitution,” Weisberg said.
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