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Megan Burns Wins New Trial Motion Based on Juror Misconduct
Megan Burns Wins New Trial Motion Based on Juror Misconduct
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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...
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Megan Burns Secures Not Guilty Verdicts in Robbery Caught on Video
Megan Burns Secures Not Guilty Verdicts in Robbery Caught on Video
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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’...
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Jules Bonjour Defends Woman Charged with Having Sex with Teenage Boys
Jules Bonjour Defends Woman Charged with Having Sex with Teenage Boys
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Livermore, Calif. (San Francisco Chronicle) – The 42-year-old Livermore mother accused of sexually assaulting two teenage boys first made an advance at one of them when he was 14 and was dating her daughter of...
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Jury Deadlocks in Michael Thorman’s Transgender Murder Trial
Jury Deadlocks in Michael Thorman’s Transgender Murder Trial
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Three men will be tried again for first-degree murder in the slaying of transgender teen Gwen Araujo, a prosecutor announced Tuesday, after a judge declared a mistrial in a case in which activists had hoped...
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