There is a large and looming backlog of court cases keeping San Franciscans in jail for years without seeing a trial. We’re in conversation with SF Public Defender Mano Raju to discussing how overdue misdemeanor cases are keeping people in pre-trial detention despite the District Attorney announcing that her office will only seek cash bail in limited misdemeanor cases because it unfairly penalizes those with less financial means and disproportionately affects defendants of color.

Read up on this situation: https://48hills.org/2023/06/hundreds-who-are-by-law-innocent-sit-in-sf-jail-because-of-court-backlog/

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