You wrote in your editorial this week that "Mirkarimi maintains his innocence, and says he has no intention of stepping down." If RM is pleading to a court that he's guilty, while calling you up and saying he's actually innnocent, that probably pisses Gascon off. What don't you get?

Adachi and Gonzalez and Dunbar crawled from the progressive excrement and shat on their old friends but why are they still covering for the great Pharoah? Buy h. brownose another fifth of cheap whisky and he'll have your backs.

...are public figures?

How many are darlings of an apologist media?

Quite a few of Adachi's clients are of course delusional, paranoids, none of them are public figures and none of them have such an army of fawning apologists to rationalize and make excuses.

Where the average convict has a few friends and family members to feed self delusion, Ross has an army of progressive ass kissers.

Here we have the Sheriff making no bones about the fact that he pleaded guilty only to get the DA off his back. And his job is to imprison other people that get prosecuted by the DA. And he doesn't have the integrity and self respect to resign.

And I feel sorry for Tim Redmond already. From day one he has seen this as a vast conspiracy against one of his heroes. I remember how it started with the police leaking evidence. Then a vindictive Chronicle. A biased judge. A 'fatal attraction' ex girlfriend. An overzealous prosecutor. And all the while his hero was desperately trying to suppress evidence and being as uncooperative as possible.

I don't think that the other Trolls should make fun of Redmond on this. Have some compassion already for someone who can't even spot reality in the rear view mirror at this point.

he's a smart guy and actually qualified to do his job, and gets things done. no wonder the progressives tore him a new one and put their support behind that bumblefuck Avalos. success = evil in progressiveland!

Im a progressive who worked to help get ross elected twice and have done work with him on a number of issues. With that said, its time for dude to step down. Grabbing your girlfriends arm doesn't seem like the most beastial thing to do (my opinion pls don't try to turn this into a prog v mod thing) but what is more concerning is that he used physical force with threat of doing things to her based on his position of power. Knowing ross (not well but better than most) it does not seem like a stretch that he did that. He was a dick to his staff. He has a big ego And can't have a conversation that lasts more than 30 seconds without making it about him.

As a very longtime guardian reader it's a bummer to see them continue to rely on the lazy "my oppinion or the way I wish that things will be printed instead of useful information" while I usually agree with you guys I fel like I leave reading articles knowing little more than your predictable oppinion instead of taking home a cohesive argument.

It's totally fucking obvious that ross bruised his girl and while it's unfortunate for his family and the movement that this has blown up, it's time for dude to go.

Jeff:
Please just shut up.

I am a D5 resident, without money or power, but when Ross was my Supervisor, I had an advocate. He fought hard for the disenfranchised he represented. He does not even live in the upscale part of the district. He lives in the midst of a community that has been marginalized and disrespected.
There are falsehoods being promulgated as facts, hearsay tends to foster this, which is why ethical and accountable courts don't entertain them! Even Judge Judy regularly dismisses hearsay. Yet, many posting here are disseminating the falsehoods as facts.
He took a plea. Under the circumstances, it was the pragmatic thing to do.
I suggest you all Google the Innocence Project- because hold onto your hats- INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE CONVICTED OF CRIMES THAT THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH. Need smelling salts? Ross did not need to take the chance of being convicted of a crime he did not commit. I do not believe a "crime" occurred that day, but he took responsibility for his actions, deemed a crime in the world according to Gascon, will "pay his debt" to society, reunite with the wife who clearly loves him, and is there by her own free will and choice, and why he can even set the example for couples every where.
The bottom line: Sheriff Mirkarimi believes that a City that is 4% Black, with a 50% Black prison population, has some work to do, and the white, racist establishment, which Gascon identifies with, does not like that! I am tired of being Gascon's ATM for what whim he fancies! In this time of limited resources, his expenditures are grotesque. Go solve the murders of the Black and Latino youth by putting some effort into that instead!
I have nothing but productive, and respectful experiences with Ross! And there is a vast majority of the people who feel as I do!‹

Jeff Adachi is right. Incidentally, I was not among the commenters who brought up a political conspiracy to "get Ross". I didn't feel that I had enough info about that to judge. But when Gascon released the photos of Eliana's bruised arm in court documents that he knew would be leaked to the press, I really started to wonder. And his latest move in questioning a plea bargain that's already in the works is enough to convince me that Gascon is out for blood. If this case wasn't politicized before, it certainly is now.

As Christine Craft said, what we need now is healing, not hatred. Peter Gabel has written a profound piece at AIOTB in which he theorizes (I'm paraphrasing) that the form of "justice" practiced by our criminal justice system is based on a sense that we must live in fear and separation from each other, and be ever on our guard. But there is an alternative form of justice with an "emphasis on the importance of taking responsibility, performing restitution to those harmed, and aspiring to apology and forgiveness as means of reintegrating broken relationships and sometimes knitting together and repairing whole communities". This is the kind of compassion that is wholly lacking in the current system. Gabel's piece is well worth reading in its entirety.

http://asitoughttobe.com/2012/03/14/peter-gabel-2/

injuries that Ross inflicted.

While Gascon's latest comments were prompted only by Ross's apparent contempt for the court, as evidenced by his dismissal of his admission as "forced" and his categorisation of his apology as involuntary even though the plea clearly states that the apology must be fully voluntary.

If Ross had simply pled to this, apologised sincerely and otherwise kept his mouth shut, this would already be resolved. But Ross still believes that this is a giant conspiracy against him rather than the much simpler truth - that Ross is an abuser who got caught - the CJ system is working normally.