Judge Dorfman orders the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office to take on new felony cases despite their objections over excessive caseloads, amid a legal system crisis.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju in Feb. 9, 2023. A Superior Court Judge said he planned to order Raju's office to accept ...

The San Francisco public defender’s office has, for months, said that it does not have enough lawyers to handle the influx of criminal cases District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is prosecuting. Now, ...

San Francisco Superior Court is facing another backlog of criminal cases that could be dismissed, just over a year after dozens of cases had to be dismissed because they had gone past their ...

The mayor's anti-crime agenda has a cost—and the indigent clients of the :Public Defender's Office shouldn't be paying it ...

A San Francisco Superior Court Judge said he planned to order the Public Defender's Office to no longer turn down felony cases, a move that was intended to ease a crisis that has left some indigent ...