Criminal,
Civil Rights
Jan. 27, 2022
Boudin violated rights of man who was attacked, suit says
Vietnamese American man says he was neither informed of plea deal discussion between his attacker and the San Francisco DA, nor given the opportunity to provide a victim impact statement at the plea hearing.
A man who was one of several Asian Americans attacked on public streets in San Francisco in recent years filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against District Attorney Chesa Boudin over the way his case was handled.
Anh Lê, a 69-year-old Vietnamese American, was on a walk in November 2019 in Chinatown when he was violently attacked without provocation on the street by Jimmy Tanner and his teenage son, according to the lawsuit. Tanner was ar...
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