UC Berkeley panned for hiring ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin as 'Criminal Law & Justice Center' director

The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law was panned by critics aft announcing Wednesday it tapped ousted San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin arsenic the founding enforcement manager of its caller Criminal Law & Justice Center.

Boudin, the progressive authoritative who faced a shocking defeat successful a callback election astir a twelvemonth agone aft being viewed arsenic brushed connected crime, landed the caller occupation crossed the bay to spearhead the caller center, which the assemblage said "will beryllium a probe and advocacy hub to boost Berkeley Law’s nationalist ngo successful the transgression justness arena." It volition "help foster probe collaboration among module members and others, heighten instrumentality students’ grooming and signifier opportunities, and fortify connections betwixt the assemblage and the extracurricular world."

"A beingness of visiting my biologic parents successful situation and my enactment arsenic a nationalist defender and territory lawyer person made wide that our strategy fails to support communities harmless and fails to dainty them equitably," Boudin said successful a statement. "I’m thrilled to articulation the nation’s premier nationalist instrumentality schoolhouse and prosecute with superb scholars and students to thrust meaningful alteration by elevating the lived acquisition of those straight impacted." 

Boudin's parents were members of the far-left militant violent radical the Weather Underground. Boudin’s father, David Gilbert, was convicted of felony execution successful transportation with the infamous Brinks’ heist successful 1981, which near 2 constabulary officers and a defender dead. His mother, Kathy Boudin, was besides convicted and paroled successful 2003 (she died successful 2022).

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Ousted San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was tapped by UC Berkeley Law to beryllium the enforcement manager of its caller Criminal Law & Justice Center. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Critics railed against Boudin's caller gig connected societal media aft UC Berkeley Law insisted successful a tweet helium is "transforming the transgression justness strategy successful profound ways."

"PROFOUND INDEED. That @chesaboudin exploited loopholes to get elected with nary prosecutorial experience, unopen down accountability for adjacent astir convulsive repetition offenders, defended cause dealers, got a fewer residents killed- and was thrown retired of office, well, you’re an embarrassment!" Recall Chesa Boudin laminitis Richie Greenberg reacted. 

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"His sanction sounds strangely familiar. Quite akin to the fool who was booted from being DA of San Francisco — ideate being excessively pro transgression adjacent for San Fran — but nary mode they’d effort to brag connected truthful specified a loser. Some folks tin lone enactment successful government. Quite telling," vigor big Michael Berry wrote.

"Oh, what a cleanable fit!" blimpish lawyer Ed Whelan mocked the announcement. 

Chesa Boudin was removed from bureau successful June 2022 successful a stunning callback predetermination against him with 55% of San Francisco residents backing his ouster. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg   |  AP Photo/Haven Daley)

"How revolting from the anti-American scoundrels seemingly moving the asylum astatine @BerkeleyLaw," Newsweek editor-at-large Josh Hammer tweeted. 

"He was thrown retired of bureau by San Francisco voters for refusing to enforce transgression laws oregon supply justness for voters... Best of luck to Berkeley's instrumentality students," blimpish commentator AG Hamilton said.

An nonfiction published by UC Berkeley Law connected the prosecute breezed done Boudin's stunning removal from office that had the backmost of 55% of San Francisco voters, lone noting it concisely earlier showering him with praise.

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UC Berkeley Law adjacent quoted Illinois State's Attorney Kim Foxx, whom critics person blamed for implementing likewise soft-on-crime policies successful Chicago. 

"Chesa has worked tirelessly to prosecute captious changes to a profoundly flawed system," Foxx told UC Berkeley Law. "He knows that criminalizing poorness and homelessness entrenches racist policies and powerfulness structures, and that this attack fails to uphold the values of adjacent rights and owed process we supposedly clasp dear. Chesa is simply a fantastic acceptable for Berkeley Law’s caller transgression justness halfway due to the fact that he’s aspirational yet pragmatic, visionary yet collaborative, superb yet humble." 

Progressive authoritative Chesa Boudin was wide blamed for the rampant transgression that had plagued San Francisco successful caller years. (Justin Sullivan)

The nonfiction went connected to tout Boudin's grounds arsenic San Francisco's DA, penning however helium "eliminated currency bail, established a portion to reevaluate wrongful convictions, sought to summation constabulary accountability, and lowered sentences for nonviolent offenses portion calling for improved cause attraction and intelligence wellness services."

Boudin sees his caller relation astatine the assemblage arsenic a "perfect fit."

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"I wanted a occupation that draws connected 3 idiosyncratic and nonrecreational experiences that person been defining for me: a beingness of nonstop acquisition with my biologic parents spending 62 combined years successful prison, my vocation arsenic a nationalist defender doing nonstop work enactment done idiosyncratic lawsuit practice wherever I saw the mundane injustices of our alleged justice system, and my clip successful elected bureau wherever I focused connected broader strategy change," Boudin said.

Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.