Criminal
Nov. 11, 2025
SF courts' low clearance rates blamed on lack of resolution, not filings
San Francisco conflict panel director Julie Traun told Judge Harry Dorfman that record-low felony clearance rates--not higher filings--are driving the county's defense lawyer shortage, warning the criminal justice system "cannot survive if everything goes to trial."
The director of San Francisco's criminal defense conflict panel told a judge Monday that the lawyer shortage in the county's defense system is not due to increased case filings, but the poor clearance rate of felony cases before the court.
Julie Traun, director of court programs at the county's bar association, told Superior Court Judge Harry Dorfman -- who has been holding hearings into the unavailability of public defenders and conflict panel attorneys -- that "...
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