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.
The real criminals here are all those who gave "sanctuary" to the killer, and continue to protect more killers from deportation by ICE.
I don't know. I found it really bizarre that as soon as the Federal government started acting in the interests of US workers by enforcing immigration law, a bunch of cities decided to not obey those laws, in order to keep the supply of illegals going.
It's almost as if business owners are proving that we don't really have a democracy at all. We can vote, but if business owners don't like it, they just nullify our vote.
Very similar thing happening with Brexit. The people think they have democracy, but business owners are proving they do not.
So there was a gun loaded laying on a street. It made him pick it up, point it, and kill her.
That kind of bullshit excuse wouldn’t work for anyone. “Oh yeah judge, I just found this and it accidentally fired precisely at the guy at whom I accidentally pointed it like a marksman”.
The real criminals here are all those who gave "sanctuary" to the killer, and continue to protect more killers from deportation by ICE.