Chesa Boudin knows prison and the criminal justice system very well. When he was 14 months, his parents, Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were incarcerated for driving a get away car in a robbery that wound up killing three men. Chesa's mother was released after 22 years, but his father will never leave prison. Boudin became a public defender and is now the latest example of a progressive, decarceral lawyer running for the DA's office, in the tradition of Larry Krasner and Tiffany Caban. The San Francisco mayor pulled what many, including the ACLU, see as a dirty trick by naming her favored candidate the interim DA. For more info go to chesaboudin.com https://www.chesaboudin.com/
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