Posted on 05/26/2019 9:24:16 AM PDT by KingofZion
Standing in front of a group of potential donors in a well-appointed home, Chesa Boudin began a stump speech that would perhaps only fly in what was once the epicenter of the counterculture.
I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery, he said. They never came home.
Mr. Boudin, 38, is campaigning for an unlikely role for someone whose parents, operatives in the 1960s radical left-wing group the Weather Underground, went to prison for their roles as getaway drivers in a botched stickup that left three men including two police officers dead.
He wants to be the district attorney.
Mr. Boudin now works as a public defender, representing poor clients in criminal cases. His platform includes reducing mass incarceration, diverting mentally ill and drug addicted offenders away from prison, being tougher on police misconduct and closing jails.
*** It is not as though the city has been a bastion of tough-on-crime policies. The current top prosecutor, George Gascón, has taken steps to divert young adults from prison, and San Francisco was the first city to clear old marijuana convictions. ***
In a measure of the citys liberal politics, all of the four candidates in the district attorney race are, in one way or another, arguing for reducing incarceration even more.
Ms. Loftus, a former prosecutor and the former president of the Police Commission, an oversight board, is also running on a platform of overhauling the justice system.
Rhetorically, there is little daylight between Mr. Boudin and Ms. Loftus. But the citys establishment has lined up behind Ms. Loftus, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor London Breed, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Kamala Harris ***
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Matter of Dohrn, 560 F. Supp. 179 (S.D.N.Y. 1983)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/560/179/1481765/
Judge Edelstein allowed the member of a gang of robbers and murderers go free, because 'it was an unpleasant place to be'?
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