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   From: criminally-complicit@sfchronicle.com   
      
   The lawyer for the undocumented immigrant who was found not   
   guilty in November 2017 for the 2015 fatal shooting of a woman   
   on the San Francisco pier-- but convicted for illegally   
   possessing a weapon-- has appealed the conviction, arguing that   
   he had fired the gun by accident and "momentary possession" of a   
   gun is not a crime.   
      
   Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 46, a previous felon and undocumented   
   immigrant who served nearly two years for felony re-entry into   
   the U.S. from Mexico, was sentenced to three years in prison for   
   the gun conviction while he awaits deportation.   
      
   In July 2015, Kate Steinle, 32, was walking on San Francisco   
   pier with her father when a bullet ricocheted off the pier’s   
   concrete floor and fatally struck her in the back. Garcia Zarate   
   was reportedly holding the gun after it "unexpectedly" went off   
   and threw it in the bay, prosecutors said.   
      
   Garcia Zarate was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and assault   
   charges, but convicted of illegally possessing a firearm. The   
   case sparked a national fervor about illegal immigration run   
   amok, with President Donald Trump calling the verdict “a   
   complete travesty of justice.”   
      
   Donald J. Trump   
   ?   
   @realDonaldTrump   
    The Kate Steinle killer came back and back over the weakly   
   protected Obama border, always committing crimes and being   
   violent, and yet this info was not used in court. His   
   exoneration is a complete travesty of justice. BUILD THE WALL!   
      
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   The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Garcia Zarate’s   
   lawyer, Cliff Gardner, filed a motion on Friday with the First   
   District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, asking the court to   
   overturn his client’s conviction and order a new trial because   
   Superior Court Judge Samuel Feng did not instruct the jury that   
   “momentary possession” of a gun is not a crime, and the jury had   
   no choice but to convict Garcia Zarate.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-found-not-guilty-   
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