OPINION: THE BIG MAN, THE BURIED RECORD, AND THE CASE FOR FREEING KEVIN EPPS
A documented public-record argument for deeper scrutiny of the prosecution that sent San Francisco filmmaker and editor Kevin Epps to prison. There are moments when history does not knock politely. It kicks the door open. Kevin Epps is not just a criminal defendant with a file number. He is a San Francisco filmmaker and journalist […]
GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM, BRING KEVIN EPPS HOME
Why California’s Clemency Power Exists Photo Credits: Justice 4 Kevin Epps, Malik Washington &https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-endorses-former-british-government-aide-steve-hilton-california-governors-2026-04-06/The Seal of the Governor of the State of California is displayed on a podium prepared for Governor Gavin Newsom ahead of his expected press conference in San Diego, California, U.S., February 2, 2026. REUTERS/Mike Blake Photo credits: Justice 4 Kevin Epps […]
STRUCK BLACK, TRIED WHITE: WHY KARMELO ANTHONY’S JURY FIGHT SHOULD ALARM EVERY AMERICAN
The question is not whether the jury was all white. The question is whether Black jurors were excluded for reasons that others survived—and whether the Constitution still knows how to recognize discrimination when it is dressed in neutral language. Photo Credits:https://www.aol.com/articles/jury-selection-karmelo-anthony-murder-145321836.html (top)https://www.foxnews.com/us/karmelo-anthony-trial-begins-no-black-jurors-racially-charged-case-over-track-meet-stabbing (bottom left)Supporters of Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf exchanged heated words outside the […]
76 MONTHS — AND WHAT THE COURTROOM COULD NOT HOLD
At Sentencing, Grief, Love, and Loss Shared the Same Space San Francisco Hall of Justice — December 2025 The sentence, when it came, was measured in months: SEVENTY-SIX MONTHS. In California, that translates to approximately six years and four months in state prison. With credit for roughly 400 days already served, Kevin Epps is expected […]
SAN FRANCISCO, THIS IS THE TEST: WILL YOU SHOW UP FOR KEVIN EPPS — OR LOOK AWAY AGAIN?
Photo Credit: Justice4KevinEpps – Left to right: Tobee Akahi Vanderwall, Kevin Epps, Andy Blue, and Tabari MorrisAs April 8 approaches, a city that prides itself on justice is being called to prove it—inside Department 13, where silence will speak just as loudly as any sentence. SAN FRANCISCO — Courtrooms do not simply deliver sentences. They […]
A CITY ON TRIAL: SUPPRESSED TRUTH, COURTROOM COLLUSION, AND A JURY NOW DECIDING SAN FRANCISCO’S SOUL
The trial of Kevin Epps illustrates and highlights contradictions not easily recognized or embraced by citizens who live in the City of San Francisco. An editor of a historic national Black newspaper. A newspaper that has confronted injustice and racism in this city for decades has become the target of a modern day lynching in […]
WHEN JUSTICE TILTS: SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, POLITICAL CALCULUS, AND THE LOOMING VERDICT IN THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL
On December 5, 2025, the steps of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street transformed into a platform for truth-telling. Community members — artists, elders, activists, scholars, and working-class residents — gathered to shine a bright light on the prosecution of filmmaker and cultural historian Kevin Epps, a case that has come to […]
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL — PART II
A Courtroom Tilted, a Witness Unsteady, and Questions the System Refuses to Ask Photo credit:https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sf-hall-of-justice-850-bryant-court-sheriffs-prosecutors-public-defenders/ California Victim Compensation Law – Gov. Code §13950 et seq.https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=3.&title=1.&part=4.&chapter=5.&article=1 When you sit inside Department 13 long enough, you begin to feel it — the slant of the room. Not the physical space, but the institutional weight, tilting slowly, almost […]
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL — PART III
Science, Bias, and the Contradictions the Court Doesn’t Want You to See When you sit inside Department 13 of San Francisco Superior Court long enough, you begin to realize that the air in that room carries more than oxygen. It carries assumption. It carries narrative. It carries the weight of a justice system that claims […]
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL: Part I
My Observations and Presentation of Information the Prosecution Wants Suppressed San Francisco styles itself as a progressive city, a beacon of justice, equity, and truth. But inside Department 13 of San Francisco Superior Court, on November 13 and 14, 2025, I witnessed a criminal trial that exposes how fragile those ideals become when a Black […]