Posted on 09/01/2019 5:29:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
On Friday, a California state appeals court threw out the felony gun conviction against Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, the illegal immigrant who fatally shot 32-year-old Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015, on the San Francisco waterfront. Garcia-Zarate was previously acquitted of murder in the killing of Steinle, but was convicted of felony possession of a firearm.
The case against Garcia-Zarate, who was in the country illegally and had been deported five times, touched off a fierce immigration debate that was a fixture in Donald Trump's stump speeches in his 2016 presidential campaign.
The 1st District Court of Appeal overturned the gun conviction because the judge failed to give the jury the option of acquitting Garcia-Zarate on the theory he only possessed the weapon for a moment.
Garcia-Zarate said he unwittingly picked up the gun wrapped in a T-shirt, and it fired accidentally. The bullet ricocheted off a concrete walkway and struck Steinle, who was with her dad and a family friend.
At the time, Garcia-Zarate had recently been released from the county jail while facing deportation proceedings. He was released under San Francisco's so-called sanctuary city policy that barred local law enforcement officials from cooperating with most federal immigration investigations.
Garcia-Zarate was acquitted of murdering Steinle in November 2017. "Justice was rendered, but it was not served," said Jim Steinle, Kate's father, when Garcia-Zarate was acquitted.
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“Justice was rendered, but it was not served,” said Jim Steinle,”
The law was rendered. Justice will come later.
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Yeah... right.
I also read that at one point he said he was "just trying to shoot at the sea lions."
I guess that his right to bear arms cannot be infringed.
That's Democrat run California for you.
I know.
He made a career out of jumping the border to be a low-level drug dealer.
What’s the over/under that the MN Somali-import ‘police officer’ gets his conviction for shooting a woman in her pajamas overturned this week, too?
I mean, they may as well follow CA’s lead! *SO ANGRY*
“I was shooting sea-lions.”
That was his initial excuse.
She bled out and died in the arms of her dad, right there on the dock.
Around the same time, about 60 miles south in Santa Cruz:
There was an illegal alien Mexican boy, age 15, living in public housing near some hippy art commune thing.
He went to the beach and came across from a poor white girl, maybe 8 years old, whom he recognized because she was a resident in the same public housing unit.
He made up some lie promises, like I have a ton of candy I can give you.
He brought her home from the beach, not so far away, and he raped her. He tried to strangle her, gave up and then crammed her into a garbage dumpster behind a fast food place and she died of positional asphyxia.
The cops asked him why he did it, killed this little blonde 8-year-old girl:
"I wanted to see what the REACTION FROM THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE."
Whoops, brown hair, not blonde.
THIS was her and that was the public housing unit she and her Mexican killer lived in, near the Santa Cruz, Calif. beach:
And HERE is the face of the 15 year-old Mexican rape murderer:
DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE JOSE ZARATE NOT GUILTY VERDICT IN MURDER OF KATE STEINLE
November 30, 2017
https://www.pacificpundit.com/2017/11/30/democrats-celebrate-jose-zarate-not-guilty-verdict-in-murder-of-kate-steinle/
After the shocking verdict finding Jose Zarate not guilty of murder or even manslaughter of Kate Steinle earlier tonight, progressive liberal Democrat scum are celebrating the verdict because Jose Zarate is an illegal alien and deported five times.
Reports had Jose Zarate, the murderer who got away with murder was seen laughing and smiling from ear to ear after the verdict was read.
California and especially San Francisco are a disgrace to the country. The jury just proved that tonight.
San Francisco will never wash the blood off their hands of Kate Steinle, killed by a five time deported illegal alien.
“The 1st District Court of Appeal overturned the gun conviction because the judge failed to give the jury the option of acquitting Garcia-Zarate on the theory he only possessed the weapon for a moment.”
He isnt supposed to have one PERIOD.
What’s next, a medal? Key to the city? Maybe the victim’s possessions should all be given to him too. Hey, maybe her family should be forced to pay for his legal bills. /s
Jim Steinle says “justice wasn’t served”. He and his daughter are/were democrats. This is what Jim voted for.
We see it playing out in Hong Kong:
The people of China are fine —it’s just their rulers.
And WE are the same.
The Undocumented Immigrant Accused Of Killing Kate Steinle Wasn’t Guilty Of Any Crimes, A Court Ruled
Jose Inez Garcia Zarate was acquitted in the killing of Kate Steinle in 2015, but convicted of a gun charge. On Friday, an appeals court overturned the conviction.
August 30, 2019
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/undocumented-immigrant-appeal-kate-steinle
On Friday, the appeals court said that not only was Zarate not a murderer, but he couldn’t be considered guilty of illegally possessing the gun.
I know what the last entry on that list needs to be.
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