A lawyer for deportee Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, who fatally shot a woman on a San Francisco pier in 2015, welcomes an appeals court's decision to overturn his only conviction in the case.
The public defender who represented an immigrant who fatally shot a woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015 says he is gratified a state appeals court reversed the man’s conviction on a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun, the one count on which he was found guilty.
The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday overturned the conviction against Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate because the judge failed to instruct the jury on his defense that he only momentarily possessed the gun. At trial, Garcia-Zarate was acquitted of murder in the killing of Kate Steinle, who was on a pier with her father when she was shot in the back in July 2015.
Public defender Matt Gonzalez says he believes that jurors would have acquitted Garcia-Zarate on the gun charge if they had been properly instructed.Garcia-Zarate remains in custody as he awaits a January trial on federal charges of gun possession in the same shooting. The case of Garcia-Zarate, who was in the country illegally and had been deported five times, touched off a fierce immigration debate.
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