SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 5.16.2025
A majority of the apathetic and pathetic San Francisco electorate think conniving politician DA Brooke Jenkins is doing great job. She was voted into office for another four years last November.
Joe Eskenazi at Mission Local (@MLnow) goes into the necessary and granular detail about the systemic prosecutorial misconduct of San Francisco DA Jenkins. A political creature who rode to the DA’s office over the Recalled political corpse of her one time boss then DA Chesa Boudin.
An undeniable fact. The mainstream media, particularly the San Francisco Chronicle, has chosen to generally ignore this story. This journalistic negligence fits in well with the current ascendancy of venture capital law and order money now embedding itself in the halls of San Francisco City Hall. Perhaps best personified by the City’s new mayor, the billionaire scion of the Levi Strauss & Co. family, Daniel Lurie.
Excerpted from Mission Local 5.16.2025
Sending District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to an ethics diversionary program would be pointless, according to a pair of appeals filed this month.
“Jenkins has accepted no responsibility for her own actions,” reads a lengthy appeal submitted to the State Bar this month by retired judge Martha Goldin.
The State Bar in April ordered Jenkins to participate in an ethics diversionary program some 2.5 years after Goldin and former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Grayner filed Bar complaints against her.
In April, responding to the State Bar’s diversion decision, Jenkins stated that “political opponents, who were ardent supporters of Chesa (Boudin), attempted to weaponize the State Bar’s complaint process.” In her May rejoinder, Goldin uses this against her.
A pouty DA Jenkins excoriates Superior Court Judge Kay Tsenin – March 2024
“Jenkins has accepted no responsibility for her own actions,” reads Goldin’s appeal. “She derided well-founded complaints as an attempt to ‘weaponize’ the State Bar process and her staff asked a journalist to minimize the nature of her misconduct. It could not be clearer that diversion will not be effective at achieving its stated goals in this case.”
Grayner, like Goldin, calls on the Bar to do more: “Rather than accept accountability for her misconduct, which the State Bar has only conditionally determined requires her to participate in diversion, Brooke Jenkins is intentionally misrepresenting the law and the State Bar’s findings to boost her public image.
The most serious of the complaints leveled against Jenkins, and the only one the Bar initially felt merited discipline, is this: In October 2021, shortly before she and a colleague, Don du Bain, left the office of DA Chesa Boudin office to work on the campaign to recall their erstwhile boss, Jenkins accessed the confidential rap sheet for Troy McAlister.
McAlister was a serial felon on parole who struck and killed two women on New Year’s Eve 2020 while driving a stolen car and purportedly high on methamphetamine. Jenkins had no connection to his case. Nor did du Bain, to whom she sent the rap sheet at 10 p.m. on a Saturday, using his personal email. Mission Local first broke this story in November 2022.
Top photo: DA Brooke Jenkins with Mayor Daniel Lurie
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