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Government

Aug. 14, 2015

Outgoing U.S. attorney defends her handling of medical marijuana cases

Northern District U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag says she loves her job, and denies suggestions that future revelations concerning her office's investigation into former state Sen. Leland Yee has anything to do with her departure.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Outgoing U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag keeps a photo of Robert F. Kennedy
on her office wall to remind her of the U.S. Department of Justice's role in the civil
rights era.


"I got to go to Selma, Alabama, with the attorney general on the anniversary of Bloody
Sunday," she said, referring to he...

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