SAN FRANCISCO After publicizing two cases last week tainted by alleged police misconduct, Public Defender Jeff Adachi said today his office will review thousands of cases, and highlighted another case he said raises questions about the integrity of drug arrests.
The news last week stemmed from two separate drug busts in the Henry Hotel, a Tenderloin flophouse, in which Adachi said video surveillance from hotel cameras proved the police illegally searched and seized drugs at residences there. A judge dismissed one case after seeing the video, prosecutors dropped the other.
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