Free Chol Soo Lee
2022
Search results
Jeffrey Gordon Adachi (August 29, 1959 – February 22, 2019) was an American attorney, pension reform advocate, and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019. Early life and education. Adachi was the son of a Sacramento auto mechanic and a laboratory assistant.
Independent experts hired by the family of former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi believe he died from a heart attack and not from a drug and alcohol overdose.
Quite simply, he developed an office that serves as a best-practices model for indigent defense. As an attorney, Jeff Adachi was a visionary. He saw a world where public defenders were afforded the same awe and respect as any high-powered private attorney.
Feb 24, 2019 · Longtime San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, a Japanese-American from Sacramento whose parents and grandparents were interned during World War II, died suddenly Friday night. He was 59.
The Project was created to honor the legacy of the late Jeff Adachi, San Francisco’s Public Defender from 2003 to 2019, and his unrelenting effort to spotlight the human impact on “justice” on our communities, as both an attorney and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Mar 25, 2019 · San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died of a heart attack at the age of 59. Mayor London Breed has released a statement on his passing Friday night.
Feb 23, 2019 · For San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who died Friday night at age 59, keeping silent about injustice was never an option. For Adachi, who spent decades defending people who were poor,...
