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Ethics Commission admits parts of mayor’s evidence, excludes other declarations and reserves video ruling
Summary
At a special Ethics Commission hearing on misconduct charges against the sheriff, commissioners admitted the declaration of acting Sheriff Vicky Hennessy in full, excluded the Paul Henderson declaration in its entirety, sustained and limited multiple paragraph-level objections across several declarations, reserved a ruling on a disputed video, and set short deadlines for exhibit exchanges and briefs.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on the evening convened a contentious evidentiary session over official-misconduct charges the mayor brought against the sheriff, admitting some of the mayor’s proffered testimony while excluding other material and holding a disputed video for later review. The commission also set a compressed schedule for exhibit exchanges and witness subpoenas.
At the start of the hearing the presiding commissioner said the commission would take no public comment during the evidentiary portion and would continue until the matter’s evidence phase could reasonably be completed. Mayor’s counsel, Sherry Kaiser, asked the panel to admit a series of declarations that outlined the duties of the sheriff’s office; the commission first addressed the declaration of Vicky Hennessy. After argument on scope and relevance, a motion to admit Hennessy’s declaration and associated exhibits carried on a voice vote.
The sheriff’s team, represented in the record by counsel identified as Mister Copp,…
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