Matthew Brady (district attorney)
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Matthew Brady was a district attorney in San Francisco from 1919 through 1943.
Brady defeated previous district attorney Charles Fickert, who was responsible for the conviction of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings in the Preparedness Day bombing.
Brady presided over numerous high profile cases in the nineteen twenties and thirties, including the three Fatty Arbuckle murder trials, arrest and roundup of Communists, the Atherton Report produced by Edwin Atherton, which reports on investigations of police corruption in San Francisco. By 1926, he was convinced that Mooney and Billings were unjustly convicted. In a letter the governor, Brady wrote "If these matters that have developed during the trials could be called to the attention of a court that had jurisdiction to grant a new trial, undoubtedly a new trial would be granted. Furthermore, if a new trial were granted, there would be no possibility of convicting Mooney or Billings."
He was defeated for reelection by "Pat" Edmund G. Brown.
