Judges to eye past arrests as police texting probe expands

May 7, 2015, 2:06 PM

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities have identified 3,000 arrests that could have been influenced and resulted in wrongful convictions as the result of bias by 14 San Francisco police officers being investigated for racist and homophobic text messages, the district attorney announced Thursday.

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