Letter from the courtroom on the sentencing of Kevin Epps: The verdict the press missed

On April 8, in Department 26 of San Francisco Superior Court, Kevin Epps, Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, was sentenced to six years and eight months in state prison.

You can read that in KQED or Mission Local. Or in the SF Chronicle’s article that was filed by a climate reporter and cited KQED as its source — where you’ll also learn that two district attorneys refused to file charges against Mr. Epps before a third did, nine years after the killing.

What you cannot read there — because of the few reporters in the room — is how that sentence was arrived at…

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