Whatever this man did or didn’t do, I just wonder why this info has to go public. It must hurt his family and friends. I think “a modicum of respect” (thanks, My Cousin Vinny!) is due to a person who has passed.
"...wonder why this information must go public..."
May his children be proud of the skidmark on the Underwear Of Life that he was. ;-)
I appreciate the sentiment of respect but I also think Sf and the world need to know what kind of people they are electing to public office- my continual hope is that enough wake up calls are sounded to where we change our voting patterns.
This man was in elected office,our Public Defender. Making life and death decisions for the public. And a drug abusing womanizer. NOT QUALIFIED and should never have held public office. Not worthy of the public trust.
Also seeing this maybe some of our other truly terrible elected officials (are any decent human beings let alone exemplary? I fear not) will be a little sobered up and try to do better.
It’s been an open secret in San Francisco that, despite all the accolades that he received from city officials following his death, and despite their affinity with his zealous representation of illegal immigrants, etc., Adachi was a widely despised figure. No one of any influence in the city is going to cut him any slack and run interference for him or his family, hence this report and the immediate post-mortem leaks about the circumstances of his death. Why was there no love lost between him and the city powers that be? A couple reasons... (1) Adachi ran against and defeated John Burton’s daughter Kim for the public defender job. John Burton is brother of the late Phil Burton and part of the Willie Brown/Nancy Pelosi/Gavin Newsom machine. (2) Adachi was, shockingly, a genuine fiscal conservative on the issue of public employee pensions. He was constantly lobbying (even to the point of getting a local initiative on the ballot) to make city employees pay for more of their own pensions and benefits, arguing that the overly generous public pension benefits were going to be unsustainable and could bankrupt the city if the economy ever tanked.
If, for no other reason, to counter the well cultivated impression in the local media that he was a water walker doing good for mankind. It is the responsibility of the media to expose feet of clay, preferably when the ONE is alive, but if not, then as soon as practicable. Otherwise it’s forgotten or buried; you’re welcome for the post-mortem pun.
Autopsy reports are public record in California and many other states. As the old saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant.