A San Francisco jury convicted Alexander London, 33, of felony domestic violence and misdemeanor domestic battery for an attack inside his own apartment last spring — the newest verdict in a run of intimate-partner-violence cases District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has been putting in front of the public all year.

The conviction, announced Aug. 21, closes the trial phase of a case that began with an April 2025 assault. But a verdict is not a sentence: no sentencing date appears in the announcement, and the account of what happened comes entirely from the prosecution. London's defense counsel is not named, the woman he was convicted of attacking is not identified, and no court-side or defense version is on the record yet. What is on the record is a pattern — Jenkins's office has spent much of 2026 publicizing jury convictions in domestic-violence cases, and London's is the latest entry.

A San Francisco jury has found Alexander London, 33, guilty of felony domestic violence and domestic battery, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Aug. 21 (external source, opens in a new tab).

According to the DA's account — the only detailed account so far — the attack happened April 9, 2025, inside London's apartment. Prosecutors say London took the victim's phone to stop her from ordering a ride, grabbed her wrists, twisted her arm behind her back, put her in a chokehold and threw her to the ground, leaving her with numerous injuries. Three days earlier, the office says, he had taken her keys and slammed her into a wall. He was convicted under Penal Code section 273.5, corporal injury to an intimate partner, and section 243(e)(1), domestic battery, in case number 25007657. Assistant District Attorney Elliott Brooks tried the case.

"We take cases like this very seriously because this kind of behavior often is the precursor of future acts of violence," Jenkins said in the announcement.

"Violence in any setting — whether in public or behind closed doors — should never be tolerated," Brooks added.

We take cases like this very seriously because this kind of behavior often is the precursor of future acts of violence," Jenkins said in the announcement.

That framing is not incidental. It is the same message the office has attached to a string of similar verdicts. Days earlier, a separate jury convicted Maurice Smith, 55 (external source, opens in a new tab), of domestic violence and battery in his own case, number 25014084, tried by ADA Samantha Zurcher. On Aug. 10, the office announced a conviction against Kelly Shaw for domestic violence, assault and violating a criminal protective order. The DA's press-release feed (external source, opens in a new tab) has carried a steady cadence of these announcements, each paired with a list of survivor resources and a reminder to call 911 in an emergency.

The volume is worth naming plainly, because it is a choice. Jenkins, who has faced sustained criticism over her handling of some categories of crime, has leaned into domestic-violence prosecutions as a public-facing record — trying cases to verdict rather than pleading them out, then putting the jury's decision in front of the city. Whether that reflects a genuine shift in how these cases are charged and staffed, or a communications strategy layered on routine work, is a question the releases themselves cannot answer.

What the announcement leaves open matters too. A conviction under 273.5 can carry anything from probation to years in state prison depending on the injuries and the defendant's record, but the office set no sentencing date and did not describe London's history. The victim's own account — whether she testified, and what she wants to happen next — is not part of the public record here. And because every fact available originates with the prosecutor who won the case, readers are getting one side of a two-sided proceeding.

That is not a reason to wave the verdict off. A jury of San Franciscans heard the evidence and convicted. But it is a reason to treat the DA's announcement as the opening of the story rather than the close of it. The next hearing — when a judge sets London's sentence — is where the case moves from a press release back into open court, and where the fuller record will finally be tested.