Posted on 12/04/2017 5:29:36 PM PST by KJC1
Defense attorneys who won acquittal for a homeless undocumented immigrant on murder, manslaughter and assault charges in the shooting of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco Bay pier will seek to have the sole conviction in the case dismissed as well, they said Monday.
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Now the defense says the conviction is inconsistent with the jurys larger acquittal. If the panel believed Steinle may have been killed by an accidental discharge, lawyers assert, Garcia Zarate should not be held responsible for possessing the weapon even though he threw it in the bay as Steinle lay dying.
Matt Gonzalez of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office, the lead attorney in the case, said he will appeal the charge at some point after Garcia Zarates Dec. 14 sentencing in Superior Court. Gonzalez said his appeal will contend jurors should have been told that momentary possession of a gun is not necessarily a crime.
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concrete ground? What school did the author attend?
It’s the job of a defense attorney to give the best possible defense to his client.
It’s the job of the Jury to reject that defense if the defendant is clearly guilty.
Unfortunately it seems that some on this jury are more interested in playing politics than doing their job
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It would be Karma if the mayor and council members were shot by an illegal criminal.
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Please! The hoi-paloi never mingle w/ the great unwashed; especially not w/o the vast protections provided by taxpayer $$$ (denied too, to the great unwashed).
Edwards was ridiculed for being correct: There are 2 America’s and the chasm is widening bigger/faster every year.
I keep wondering why he was not charged with stealing the gun, instead of merely possessing it. And, it seems the gun was government property -- wouldn't that also bring a federal charge of stealing government property?
Not wishing it, but absolute karma would require the loss of their children.
I believe that at this point in time this KILLER should be put in a big federal prison, in the general population, and the guards should all go on a coffee break.
Would be interesting to note how many of the jurors exhibit sudden wealth that they didn’t have before the trial.
Or covfefe break.
Why not award him some citizenship so he won’t have that hanging over his head either...Maybe set him up in a nice apartment so he will no longer be a vagrant...
This is pure insanity!
I personally can’t blame these defense attorneys for doing what’s best for their client, no matter how much I disagree with them.
Theyre also officers of the Court.
Not to mention they whole right thing.
So I can blame them. And I do.
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Shakespeare was at least partly right. Thanks KJC1.
Maybe she wasn”t even shot. Maybe she”s just fine.
Where is the crime of the BLM agent who lost this gun to begin with???
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