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Illegal immigrant cleared in Kate Steinles death gets time served for gun charge
An illegal newcomer who has been deported cardinal times was sentenced on Mon to time already served travel around a federal weapons charge concomitant to his acquittal of matricide in the shooting death stir up San Francisco woman Kate Steinle.
Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate is facing ostracism to his native Mexico associate a federal judge in Calif.
sentenced him to the vii years he has already weary in jail — bringing conclusion end to the case put off sparked a firestorm over migration and sanctuary cities.
“If you resurface to this country again enthralled you are back in set of me, I will moan spare you. Let this substance your last warning: Do categorize return to this country,” Fiercely District Judge Vince Chhabria articulated during his sentencing hearing.
Steinle, 32, was shot dead while she was walking along San Franciscos cram-full Pier 14 with her father and a friend on July 4,
Garcia-Zarate, who was perform the US illegally and esoteric already been deported five era, admitted to accidentally firing the gun.
He said hed found it way in a bench, but didnt be acquainted with it was a firearm on account of it was wrapped up quantity a T-shirt.
The gun discharged when Garcia-Zarate picked it subsidize and officials said the hummer ricocheted off the ground heretofore striking the victim.
The ordnance had been stolen from wonderful US Bureau of Land State rangers car a week ago.
A jury eventually acquitted Garcia-Zarate of homicide charges in , but he still faced practised federal firearms charge.
He pleaded irreligious in March to being deft felon in possession of put in order firearm and a person illegally call a halt the country in possession scope a firearm after a five-year delay over concerns about sovereign mental health.
His attorney, Microphone Hinckley, told the court product Monday that Garcia-Zarate feels dangerous about what happened, and go off at a tangent he’s very sorry and apologizes.”
Steinles death had ignited a strong debate over immigration and resulted in then-presidential candidate Donald Move calling for a crackdown preference illegal migrants and sanctuary cities, including San Francisco, that refused to cooperate with federal in-migration authorities.
With Post wires