mr. d.a., i am asking you, truly consider leaving the death penalty along. let that be in god's hands, what that person goes through or deals with. there are too many flaws in our system that we cannot control and we cannot trust a man. i am asking you to consider that, to take the consideration of that. the question we did not answer was it one of these guys were in this and that was executed by a prosecutor that had evidence that was clearly convincing that that person was innocent, what would you do? that was a simple question to me. that was not a tricky question. it was a straight up question dealing with innocence and the prosecutor doing something that was considered murder or attempted murder. you could answer that. you faded around that question, and to me, that is enough to make me think you should consider not dealing with the death penalty and joining in the fight to abolish the death penalty. we went to illinois, and i was with another group. we would go from state to state that have the death penalty and go to legislators and everyone asking th

mr. gascon, and i joined him when he moved over to the d.a.'s office. joining the office on his request, because i think we really have a unique perspective, having worked on the defense side and on policy issues, and i can attest that he is undertaking a wholehearted effort to really bring some reform to the criminal justice system on many fronts, this being one of them that we are evaluating. i hope that you as city and county residents will see in our work that we really take some efforts that will reform. anybody that has participated in the criminal justice system for any length of time knows that it does not work from whatever and will you are looking at it, so the question is how do we make it better? we hope to engage all of you in that. we are starting neighborhood courts, and a lot of efforts that we hope to engage the city and county in supporting us and looking at ways to move away from the over incarceration of people and look at ways to reform their behavior. the efforts we have undertaken when george was appointed to the position -- jeff

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mrs. mirkarimi never wanted it to go to the list. >> reporter: so far the wife refuses to cooperate but that's something the d.a. says is not that unusual. >> often, the victim is unwilling to cooperate and the reason why the victims run willing to cooperate, quite frankly, is because they are fearful, they have a lot at stake. >> i have spoken personally to mrs. mirkarimi. she is not afraid. she is not in danger. >> reporter: why isn't mrs. mirkarimi cooperating with police? >> you'll have to ask her. but that doesn't necessarily mean that a crime has been committed and there's plenty of reasons that a person doesn't want to cooperate with the police. >> reporter: then there are the politics. >> obviously, you have a high- profile elected official. you have someone that's actually involved in law enforcement. so obviously, i can see how the public interest in this case might be different than, quite frankly, the 700-plus other cases that we handled in 2011. >> reporter: this is a very public case involving a public official. if you charge it, there are going to be some segments that say, it's politics. if you d

mr. mirkarimi from going back to his home. >> reporter: that protective order could be lifted if another judge agrees there's no threat of violence. the d.a. also confirmed they are investigating other possible incidents of violence involving mirkarimi. just a few hours ago, mirkarimi and wife spoke about the charges he faces. >> we believe these charges are very unfounded. and we will fight these charges. and i'm confident that in the end we will succeed in showing the missteps. >> this is -- i want to say that this is unbelievable. how i said before i don't have any complaint against my husband. we are together and we are fighting. we are going to fight this. this is my son, my husband and my son. this is unbelievable, this is completely wrong. >> reporter: after speaking to the press, sheriff mirkari mi was said to have been driven to the city jail for fingerprinting at his own jail. a tentative arraignment date has been set for tuesday of next week. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> ross mirkarimi previously served seven years as one of san francisco's most liberal supervisor. in 2010 he regist

d.a., george gason. [applause] city attorney twice elected in san francisco, and usually without opposition, dennis herrera. [applause] a member of the board of education and from your administration, mr. newsom, hydra mendoza. [applause] the assessor for the city and county of san francisco, phil teng. the treasurer of the city and county of san francisco, jose cisneros. [applause] the public defender and the man that first whispered to george, you should be the d.a., jeff hadachi. one of the judges with whom we have worked for years, lilian singh. [applause] and of course the woman who was your lifeline from here to hong kong when you were trying to escape this awesome responsibility, rose pack. [applause] fire chief of the city and county of san francisco, joanne hayes white. and a man whose work as an architect in three or four administrations, a man that i got from the board of supervisors years ago, he became deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff under mayor newsom, steve koba, chief of staff. and as always, you're in good hands of public safety, but only if there is a police chief, and there is one here, the acting police chief, jeff godong. [applause] the controller, a

d.a.'s office renchferenced october 18th letter that documented his near neglect of his son, including leaving him in the car alone, vomiting. in the same e-mail, prosecutors say mrs. lopez said she would make regular trips to l.a. and was nervous leaving her son alone with mirkarimi, saturdadde had thoughts of running away. they already that child protective services had investigated the report and the e-mail and concluded that the separation was unfounded. the dezzen or so supporters who showed up today agreed. >> we have enough hurting people, enough families torn up. why tear that family up. let's get on with business. >> the judge advised the attorney to pursue a putikz in family court to get supervised visitation for mirkarimi and his son. as for the stay-away order, it's standard not to wait, i should say, until a batterer's treatment program is completed. that doesn't happen until the trial issoever. >> live in san francisco, stephanie strong. >> so thanks so much for the update. a criminal case involving police corruption came to an end today for one of those dirty cops involved. former san ramon police officer luis lombardi pleaded guilty today to nine c

mrs. mirkarimi never wanted it to go to the police. >> reporter: so far the wife refuses to cooperate but that's something the d.a. says is not that unusual. >> often, the victim is unwilling to cooperate and the reason why victims are unwilling to cooperate is, quite frankly, because they're fearful, they have a lot at stake. >> i've spoken personally to mrs. mirkarimi. she is not afraid. she is not in danger. >> reporter: why isn't mrs. mirkarimi cooperating with police? >> you'll have to ask her. but that doesn't necessarily mean that a crime has been committed and there's plenty of reasons that a person doesn't want to cooperate with the police. >> reporter: then there are the politics. >> obviously, you have a high- profile elected official. you have someone that's actually involved in law enforcement. so obviously, i can see how the public interest in this case might be different than, quite frankly, the 700-plus other cases that we handled in 2011. >> reporter: this is a very public case involving a public official. if you charge it, there are going to be some segments that say, it's politics. if you don't

d.a. in riverside. that takes skill, perfesuasive power. he would need them in the murder case of the former police chief and family man chris hall. >> mr.the surface, looks like a loving family man. he looks like a good father, somebody that had the support of his family. >> reporter: so he d. but he wasn't buying the loving father and family man, no. when he heard about chris hall's very obvious grief, the wailing that went on after the so-called accident, the phrase that crossed his mind was, it's an aktd. >> i think it was a wonderful performance by the defendant of acting like a bereaved huls. bu husband, but when you look at his actions, how little he did to help his wife. >> reporter: who tried harder to save christi? not chris, said the prosecutor, but his daughter. >> she called 911. she helped him get the body out of the spa. she is the only one who did chest compressions. he had no interest in truly helping his wife. >> a matter of opinion, of course, but prosecutor strunski poked around in chris hall's past as a consider policeman and what did he find? >> this man had an uncanny ability to fabricate stories. >> seven years ea