San Francisco Court Watch: Courts evade scrutiny, fueling the blame game - The Voice of San Francisco

San Francisco Court Watch: Courts evade scrutiny, fueling the blame game - The Voice of San Francisco

San Francisco’s courts are a circus, but the act is wearing thin. Public Defender Manohar Raju recently protested that his office is too “overloaded” and “overworked” to handle new cases, pointing to a supposed 31 percent surge in criminal filings over the past three years. This story was enough to convince Mayor Daniel Lurie and the Board of Supervisors to keep his $52 million budget intact, while raising it to $57.6 million in subsequent years…