San Francisco elects an underdog as next DA
When Chesa Boudin learned he had won a tight race to become San Francisco's new district attorney, he was flying home from a visit with his father at a prison in upstate New York.
Boudin was 14 months old when his left-wing activist parents were incarcerated for their role in an armed robbery that killed three men. His close-up view of the criminal justice system shaped his career as a public defender who vowed to make sweeping reforms if elected to serve as the city's top prosecutor.
He entered the race as the underdog but wound up with more votes than interim District Attorney Suzy
