Criminal
Dec. 29, 2010
Top Public Defender Resigns
Teresa Caffese, the chief deputy in the San Francisco public defender's office, is resigning to return to the courtroom.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Teresa Caffese, the chief deputy in the San Francisco public defender's office, will resign Friday to go into private practice.
Caffese, 50, handled many of the office's toughest cases and she made a name for herself asserting mental insanity defenses, particularly in the nationally watched case of an Oakland woman who threw her three children into the San Francisco Bay.
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