WHY ARE THEY SITTING ON THE STORY?
They all have it (TV mostly and the Chronicle) --they say they can't go with it because they can't prove it, fair enough but they have deeper pockets than I do.
Look at the facts: on the night of his death, the police and federal agents were pounding on the pad where Adachi was, with a South American woman who wasn't his wife and where existed besides wine, illegal substances. We know that but that isn't the biggie.
It's a story that won't go away nor should it. Yeah, they open themselves to lawsuit if it gets out but if you have the truth you have nothing to fear.
Prove it? Classic story of an impish SF Press and the Chronicle first in line.
No courage, no guts. For you locals? Demand transparency from the Fourth Estate.
Usually, when a significant (if not 'Big') story is being held back, it's done to protect someone or some entity. Who or what is being protected by this secrecy? Or do they think Adachi was not that well known, did not have a fan base, and therefore, not many people really care since folks die every day? I tend to think it's the later.
ReplyDeleteIf this 'Other Woman' is linked to somebody else, someone who is very well known in the Bay Area. If she is very likely to spill the beans if indicted, maybe that's what keeps this a quiet story.
Jeff Adachi was very well known and highly regarded in the legal community and among San Franciscans in the know. He was the public defender and often in the news for his cases. Additionally, he authored one of the most helpful bar exam courses for aspiring lawyers. Most married men and women cheat, so that's nothing unique.
DeleteWould not surprise me. For all the city's sanctimonious, San Francisco stinks from the head down.
DeleteChristine... what are referring to is superficial well know facts of the man and what his occupation was. What you fail to see is the dirty under belly of San Francisco corruption, sex, drugs and coverups. The sooner people and the media pull their head out of the sand the sooner we can get to the truth of the matter..... and what matters is truth and honesty for the people of San Francisco. There needs to be accountability credibility in people that represent to community has a whole.
DeleteHe's one of the,progressive leader of the Sanctuary City movement. The real truth has been buried.. The real story was, he was a "Druggie" and an unfaithful husband.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a list of every story they went with that they couldn't "prove"....HA!
ReplyDeleteBut that's a red herring anyway: They don't *have* to be able to "prove" it. That's what attribution is all about.
That's just pure bullshit.
I would instantly be interested in any follow up story about
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So far nuttin.
Rich, I think you are the only one in the media today that would have the cuts to report it. And I wish you would.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's a lot of questions the media here won't answer. Remember when he died how the Chronicle tried to make it sound like he was on a trip out of town. It took a freelancer, Bryan Carmody, to come up with the goods on the Brazilian lady and the cocaine. And after he served up his story, the police literally used a sledge hammer to break down the doors to his home and office. That sent a message to the rest of the media -- let this story slip away.
ReplyDeleteQuestions to ask:
1. Who is the Brazilian lady? Was she associated with a drug cartel from that country? The public defender reps a lot of people in the drug business.
2. Where is the Brazilian lady now?
3. How does a public defender get enough money for a cocaine habit? Or was he being provided the cocaine by somebody?
4. Say, for the sake of argument, that there was a drug cartel involved, wouldn't the SF police or federal agents want to know more about that?
Anyway, with the Chron and our idiotic TV newsrooms, we'll never get any of these questions answered. It will take a journalist from out of town to get this story. It usually does.
All true. Sadly.
DeleteChristine, I was the earlier poster you replied to.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the info. Now, I understand what made him a significant part of the Bay Area scene. He must have been brilliant to author a course for the Bar Exam. Merry Christmas to you, Ms Craft!
"He must have been brilliant to author a course for the Bar Exam."
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 8:12 PM, either you're being sarcastic or you've never met a lawyer.
Law professors aren't typically all that great at prepping students for the bar exam. The hardest bar exam in the country is in California. New York is the second hardest. There are a series of checklists a student must master in order to write an answer on the bar exam, under extreme time duress. Jeff Adachi was able to boil the complexities down to a mnemonic system that didn't make the chore less gargantuan, but made it more manageable. He had great insight into the process.This is not something done by small minds. Imagine 5:23 stuck in a big warehouse with hundreds of other students,dripping in flop sweat for three solid days. You may begin.
DeleteAs for his untimely demise, just because someone has some champagne and a sniff of cocaine, does not make them either a drug addict or an alcoholic.
This type of story is right up Datelines alley.
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