Four years ago, San Francisco’s medical examiner misidentified the remains of a man who died in a Tenderloin hotel as James Robinson and delivered the inaccurate news to his daughter.
Robinson was still alive and living on the street. The heartbreaking error, only discovered in 2024, spurred reforms at the agency.
In February, the Chronicle recently learned, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner correctly determined a man who died on a Mission District sidewalk was Robinson and again called his daughter. He was 53…