FILE - 8188 - Judge Chan Transcript
FILE - 8188 - Judge Chan Transcript
FILE - 8188 - Judge Chan Transcript
1 as misguided.
2 There is no greater proof of this in my mind than my time as
3 the supervising judge of Young Adult Court. The people that I
4 interact with every Thursday are the children and grandchildren
5 of people who I represented as a lawyer.
6 The real crime was how their parents and grandparents were
7 dealt with by the system. By comparison, consider how the
8 opioid crisis has been addressed by the political leadership in
9 this country.
10 So while I agree wholeheartedly with the effort by the
11 District Attorney and the Public Defender to seek a different
12 path, I cannot express in any more certain terms my disapproval
13 of the manner in which the Office of the District Attorney is
14 being managed. We simply cannot have the current levels of
15 inadvertence, disorganization, and expect there to be any public
16 confidence in what we do here collectively.
17 Constant turnover, constant managerial reorganization, all
18 these things, whether it's intentional, whether it's reckless,
19 whether it's excusable neglect, that's not in front of me today.
20 Not to make light of the situation, but you can't run an airline
21 this way.
22 So I hope that people in the District Attorney's office will
23 shift their focus from some of the bigger issues and concern
24 themselves with the unglamorous yet necessary work of public
25 prosecution. And it goes without saying that you can't have
26 multiple lawyers on cases all the time. Things are going to
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28 While there may be disagreements in the future about why
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5 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE
6 I, JOANN M. PRIOR, AN OFFICIAL REPORTER OF THE SUPERIOR
7 COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF
8 CALIFORNIA, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING IS A TRUE AND
9 CORRECT STATEMENT OF THE TESTIMONY AND PROCEEDINGS HAD IN THE
10 WITHIN-ENTITLED MATTER AND THAT THE SAME IS A FULL, TRUE AND
11 CORRECT TRANSCRIPTION OF THE SHORTHAND NOTES AS TAKEN BY ME IN
12 SAID MATTER.
13 DATED: AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, THIS 28th
14 DAY OF September, 2021.
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18 JOANN M. PRIOR, CSR 9129
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