By David M. Greenwald
Executive Editor

San Francisco, CA – Can a district attorney be sued for agreeing to a “slap on the wrist” plea agreement? Most experts think not, but a Vietnamese American man, Anh Lê, 69, has filed suit claiming that prosecutors failed to inform him of a plea bargain with the man convicted of attacking him.

“The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office allowed the adult male attacker to plead to a misdemeanor with one year probation, restitution to the victim and (a) criminal protective order,” Lê said in a news conference Tuesday. “They did this without consulting me, without any input from me at all, and in violation of my rights as a victim.”

Boudin’s office has fired back arguing that their work has been “mischaracterized” and calling this a “blatantly political lawsuit.”

Lê in his suit claimed that he was out for a walk in Chinatown in November 2019, when he was attacked by defendant Jimmy Tanner and his teenage son. He claims that Tanner threatened to kill him and then attacked him with a glass bottle, while his son beat him with a baseball bat.

At the press conference, Lê called the attack “the most brutal, terrifying and humiliating experience of my life.”

Lê is objecting to the fact that Tanner was allowed to plead guilty only to a misdemeanor battery charge.

However, the facts of the case would seem to favor a misdemeanor plea.

According to a release from the DA, Lê and Tanner, who uses a wheelchair, had an argument over Tanner’s 11 year...

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