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Emily Dahm's client was seen exposing and touching his genitals on a BART train. He was charged with felony indecent exposure and faced a prison sentence. However, through her skillful cross-examination of the train operator...

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Emily Dahm was able to secure a six-month jail sentence for a client who, while driving under the influence of alcohol, hit and killed a 17-year-old girl in San Francisco. He stopped immediately, called 911,...

Emily Dahm represented one of nearly two dozen men arrested in Contra Costa County in the “Omega Red” wiretap operation, targeted at bringing down an alleged Norteño gang conspiracy to commit a variety of crimes....

Emily Dahm represented a 21-year-old Marine who had met a young woman online whom he believed was 18 years old. Unbeknownst to him, she was 17 and still a few months shy of her 18th...

San Francisco, Calif. (San Francisco Chronicle) – A man convicted of robbing three people in San Francisco last spring was granted a new trial after a Superior Court judge ruled that a juror’s statements about...

San Francisco, Calif. (SF Public Defender Press Release) – A borderline mentally disabled man charged with robbing an elderly woman in 2011 was acquitted after evidence showed he was confused and manipulated by police investigators’...