San Francisco’s beleaguered head of homicide, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has been under fire from both Mayor Leland Crawford and from printed accusations of harassment and police brutality in a rival newspaper. It is public record that Glitsky and Curtlee have a long history as antagonists, beginning with the former’s arrest of the latter for rape and murder back in 1998, charges for which Mr. Curtlee was convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. Early this year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal overturned that conviction and ordered a retrial, and since that time, Mr. Curtlee has been free on bail. Also, since the time of Mr. Curtlee’s release, three people with connections to his earlier trial have been murdered. These are Felicia Nuñez, a prime witness against Mr. Curtlee; Matt Lewis, an investigator for the district attorney’s office; and Janice Durbin, the wife of the foreman of the jury in the Curtlee trial, Michael Durbin. And only last week, in a highly publicized sequence of events, Lieutenant Glitsky arrested Mr.
