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A jury acquitted a mentally troubled man Tuesday of charges that he unlawfully disturbed two bears when he went into the San Francisco Zoo's grizzly grotto. Kenneth Herron, 21, had been accused of trespassing and disturbing dangerous animals in the Sept. 26 incident, in which he sneaked into the home of two 6-year-old, 500-pound f...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A plea from the San Francisco District Attorney's Office to revoke the parole of Tare Beltranchu, who killed a San Francisco mother in front of her two small children in Oct. 2000, has been rejected by state prison officials. Joining the San Francisco prosecutor James Conger at the hearing were Claire Joy...

One morning this past March, Aimee Solway arrived at her job at the Alameda County district attorney’s office, in Oakland, California, and found about a dozen boxes piled next to her desk. Each was labelled with the name of a defendant, Ernest Dykes, and inside were the files of the prosecutors who had worked on his case. Dykes had c...

San Francisco, CA — A San Francisco street performer accused of punching and pulling a knife on a Muni agent was found not guilty by a jury Friday afternoon, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced. Robert Lewis, 44, had been charged with battery on a transportation agent and brandishing a knife. The misdemeanor c...

San Francisco, CA — A jury promptly acquitted a 49-year-old man of domestic violence after determining the complaining witness’ testimony was an “escalating fantasy,” San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi announced today. The jury deliberated just over an hour Tuesday afternoon before finding Phillip Ma, 49, not guilty of...

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price in a conference room in Oakland, Calif.