SAN FRANCISCO — One defendant in the criminal justice bazaar just paid three years and two months for the right to file a motion to suppress. Given current market conditions, he got a good price.
Such was the balance sheet after a couple of drug sellers came before Northern District Judge Susan Illston on Friday for sentencing, part of a government program to take cases out of state court and charge them federally. U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello trumpets the practice, called Operation Helping Hand, while the defense bar despises it.
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