California appeals court reverses conviction against Mexican immigrant who was acquitted in the 2015 murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco.
used in the shooting, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District ruled Friday.
A portrait of Kate Steinle is displayed at a memorial site on Pier 14 on July 17, 2015 in San Francisco.Garcia Zarate initially told police he was sitting in a chair on San Francisco's Pier 14 on July 1, 2015, when he inadvertently stepped on the gun, which was wrapped in rags, and it discharged. "Under defendant’s theory of the case here, he sat in a chair, bent over to pick up an object wrapped in rags, did not know that the object was a gun, the gun fired, and as soon as it fired, he immediately threw the gun in the water in order to stop it from firing," the appeals court found."If believed by the jury, these facts describe an accidental discovery and abandonment."
San Francisco public defender attorney, Francisco Ugarte answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco.Then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump said Garcia Zarate was the type of person he wanted to keep out of the country. Trumptwo days after the shooting that Steinle"was viciously killed b/c we can't secure our border? Stand up for US.
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