{Anti-Death Penalty, SF DA Kamala} Harris feeling heat as A.G. primary nears

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/31/10 | Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau

[SmithL]

Sacramento -- Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris is battling increasing criticism of her performance as San Francisco district attorney both at home and on the campaign trail with only eight days left before the primary.

On May 20, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ripped into Harris, saying she violated defendants' rights by failing to disclose to defense attorneys damaging information about a police drug lab technician who's under investigation for allegedly skimming cocaine from evidence files.

Problems intensified for Harris last week when The Chronicle disclosed that a toxicologist at the San Francisco coroner's office had been labeled as a "perpetrator of fraud" by a Washington state court for her work there. The woman had been testifying in drunken-driving cases for two years in San Francisco before prosecutors learned of her background and told defense attorneys.

Harris' opposition to the death penalty is also coming back to haunt her as the race draws to a close. A Bay Area police officer has created a Facebook page opposing her run, accusing her of being "more of a career politician than the crime-fighting attorney her campaign is making her out to be."

[Kevin in California]

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Jose to be exact) and this woman is pathetic.

Harris opted not to seek the death penalty of that piece of vermin Edwin Ramos who kiled a father and son (The Bologna’s) as they left a BBQ.

[NormsRevenge]

Puh-tooie on her..

Soft on crime, soft on illegals