Wife of SF Sheriff agrees to testify in domestic violence case, will seek immunity.
After repeatedly denouncing the misdemeanor domestic violence charges against her husband in public and refusing to talk to investigators, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife now intends to testify at his upcoming trial, her attorney says.
"Of course my client is going to cooperate," said Paula Canny, the attorney for Eliana Lopez.
How much Lopez says on the stand, however, will depend on whether the district attorney will grant her immunity, Canny said.......
Canny's fear is that if Lopez testifies without immunity - and says, for example, that the couple did indeed have a loud, physical fight - she could be hit with a child endangerment charge because the boy was there at the time.
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