Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 29, 2024
San Francisco judge faces death threats over lenient sentence for stabbing
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins attended a protest outside the courthouse and criticized Judge Kay Tsenin's sentencing of a man who stabbed a 94-year-old woman, but the prosecutor denounced threats.
Judge Kay Tsenin
The president of the Bar Association of San Francisco said Thursday that recent death threats made against retired assigned Judge Kay Tsenin are "our worst fears realized" as fall-out continues from her decision to allow mental health treatment rather than prison for a man with a long criminal history who pleaded guilty to stabbing a 94-year-old Asian American woman in June 2021.
The stabbing was one of several attacks on Asian Americans i...