AG CANDIDATE KAMALA HARRIS HAS WORST CONVICTION RATE IN STATE

Opinion, by Blogonaut

We have made no secret of our view that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, with her anti-law enforcement views (including refusing to enforce the death penalty in all cases—not to mention dismissing provable charges against the drug crazed man on two burglary probations caught by SFPD on our penthouse balcony where he crouched with a knife, duct tape and rope) is a weak candidate for California’s top prosecutor.

While we were across the street grabbing a cup of Joe this cover story in the SF Weekly (a left wing neighborhood paper that would favor Harris as much as any periodical would) caught our eye:

A Lack of Conviction.

Apparently, if you are charged with murder in San Francisco, and decide to roll the dice on a jury trial, with Kamala Harris as the District Attorney you have a 50-50 chance of beating the rap. Even though Harris takes only the strongest cases to trial, and dismisses the rest:

"In the first quarter of 2010, things got worse. During that time, Harris' office secured guilty verdicts in just 53 percent of its felony trials — a remarkable figure, revealing that defendants accused of serious crimes who took their case to trial had an even one-in-two shot at winning an acquittal. By contrast, the most recent recorded statewide average was 83 percent, according to statistics from the California Judicial Council.

"The general decline in felony trial convictions has included more failures in murder cases specifically, according to records released by the D.A.'s office in response to a request from SF Weekly. From January 2009 through the end of last month, according to the records, Harris has obtained murder or voluntary manslaughter convictions for just 11 out of 20 homicide defendants at trial, with the rest acquitted or convicted on lesser charges."

Read the full SF Weekly cover story on Harris' courtroom record.

Read how Kamala Harris does not even know how many SF cops she convicted of crimes!

[That's right, up to 100 SF police officers have been convicted of crimes, and Harris cannot even tell the Chief of Police who those officers are!]

The bottom line is that if those of you in other counties want to step over drunks and drug addicts laying in the sidewalks, and you are against enforcing the laws on our books--like the death penalty for cop killers and serial killers--then Kamala Harris is YOUR cantidate for California Attorney General.

Which is why, no doubt, Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Harris for Attorney General.