Life in "Progress" City - San Francisco edition

From the liberal utopia of San Francisco, where there hasn't been a conservative in city government since man invented time............

A San Francisco judge told prosecutors Thursday to dismiss hundreds of drug cases after they admitted that the investigation into the police drug lab scandal would prevent them from bringing the defendants to trial anytime soon.

District Attorney Kamala Harris' office has already dismissed several hundred cases because of evidence-skimming suspicions involving a former lab technician, and prosecutors have said as many as 600 more are in jeopardy. However, after an initial wave of dropped cases, prosecutors have been freeing defendants only a few at a time, usually when their court dates arrive.

Meanwhile, many drug defendants remain behind bars at the county jail. At a Superior Court hearing Thursday, Judge Anne-Christine Massullo asked lead drug prosecutor Sharon Woo about the status of six cases set to go to trial next week.

Woo replied that prosecutors did "not intend to go forward" with any of them.

She explained that the police criminal investigation into whether retired lab technician Deborah Madden stole drug evidence prevented her office from meeting its legal obligation to turn over all documents that could help defense attorneys defend their clients.

Thanks reader Jeremy.

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