Bill Fazio

★ Slow Wheels (Matier and Ross)

With the Interim District Attorney, justice takes a break until after the election in the case of a woman killed by cyclist. Read More

We need a prosecutor for District Attorney, not a politician. If you agree, vote Bill Fazio on November 8.

Posted on November 7, 2011

★ The Interim “SF District Attorney ‘Forgot About’ Thousand Unsolved Murders”

“What else — aside from 1,151 unsolved homicides and over 900 unsolved rapes — is slipping San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón’s mind?” Read More
Posted on November 5, 2011

★ Alameda County has far more unsolved rapes and homicides than San Francisco

“According to state Department of Justice statistics from 2009, the most recent year available, San Francisco had 45 homicides, 71 percent of which were cleared. It had 179 forcible rapes, 22.9 percent of which were cleared. In that same year, Alameda County had 138 homicides, 46 percent of which were cleared, and 553 forcible rapes, 44.8 percent of which were cleared.” Read More
Posted on November 3, 2011

★ D.A. Gascón loses appeal over mystery DNA memo

A state appeals court ordered San Francisco prosecutors Friday to turn over a potentially damning memo about the Police Department’s DNA lab, rejecting arguments that the document was protected from disclosure as a confidential work product. Read More.
Posted on October 31, 2011

★ Gascón’s D.A. run hangs on how voters see shift

“This time last year, George Gascón was the San Francisco police chief who had recently switched his political registration from lifelong Republican to decline-to-state [...]” Read More.
Posted on October 31, 2011

★ DA Candidates (Except Gascon) Meet In Final Debate

San Francisco’s district attorney did not attend today’s debate–the last before the Nov. 8 election. Read More.
Posted on October 26, 2011

★ Hard Time

Since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976, 118 people on death row have been exonerated. These 118 people spent a combined 1,125 years in prison. Read More.
Posted on October 10, 2011

★ Field Poll: Less voter support for death penalty

The Death Penalty costs California $184 million/year more than life without possibility of parole. Read More.
Posted on October 6, 2011

★ Interim DA “Gascon [...] is not someone who places a high value on transparency”

The SF Bay Guardian spells it out. Read More. Via SFBG Politics
Posted on September 27, 2011

★ Interim DA Gascon puts politics before public safety by appealing judge’s order to release DNA lab memo

Prosecutors in the office of District Attorney George Gascón have decided to appeal a judge’s order that they release an internal memo detailing problems with DNA analysis in the San Francisco Police Department crime lab. Read More. Via SF Weekly’s The Snitch
Posted on September 26, 2011