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   A San Francisco city commissioner is on track to go to trial for sexual   
   assault and sodomy charges, after a preliminary hearing in his case concluded   
   this week, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office.   
      
   William Monroe Palmer II, a member of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department   
   Oversight Board and the DA’s Sentencing Commission, has been accused of   
   assaulting a woman after meeting her on the street the night of Aug. 30 and   
   offering her a ride.   
      
   According to police witnesses who interviewed the woman after the incident,   
   Palmer brought the woman to his Lower Haight apartment, where he allegedly   
   raped, strangled, and punched her before ultimately deciding to drive her back   
   to a BART station. At    
   that point, the woman told officers that she escaped from his car and ran away.   
      
   Public defender Sylvia Cediel, who is representing Palmer, said that “not   
   all facts were presented” during the preliminary hearing, which only   
   included witnesses for the prosecution — and requires a lower burden of   
   proof than a trial.   
      
   “While the judge ruled that the case can proceed to trial, I am confident   
   that Mr. Palmer will be fully exonerated when all facts come to light,”   
   Cediel said.   
      
   During the preliminary hearing, it was revealed that Palmer’s DNA was not   
   found on the woman’s body or clothes, or under her fingernails.   
      
   Though she had not initially reported that she was sexually assaulted when   
   officers responded to her 911 call, she did so the next day, and was then   
   screened for sexual assault on Sept. 1.   
      
   Palmer and the woman did not know each other prior to the alleged assault,   
   according to statements made on the scene. She was unfamiliar with San   
   Francisco, and is a Spanish speaker.   
      
   Police who responded to the emergency call said they found the woman on   
   Palmer’s block of Scott Street, disheveled and crying. Photos taken by those   
   officers showed a cut and blood on her lip, as well as a cut on her finger.   
      
   Earlier this month, Palmer pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include   
   sodomy by use of force, assault with intent to commit a felony, false   
   imprisonment, assault with force likely to commit great bodily injury, and   
   sexual battery by restraint.   
      
   Palmer, who remains in jail, will be held to answer on all five charges after   
   the preliminary hearing. He will be arraigned on Dec. 13.   
      
   https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/sf-commissioner-william-palmer-trial/   
      
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