A jury has been selected in the high-profile trial of the illegal immigrant accused of killing Pleasanton native Kate Steinle. Six men and six women — three of whom are immigrants — will decide the fate of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who allegedly shot 32-year-old Steinle while she was sitting with her father on San Francisco’s Pier 14 in July 2015. Five alternate jurors, four men and one woman, were also chosen on Wednesday. “We are very pleased with the jury,” said Matt Gonzalez, the lead defense lawyer in the case and the chief attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. “We have such great diversity built in in San Francisco and I think we have a jury that understands a lot of the concerns about the defendant receiving a fair trial.”
One big issue in the case will be the weapon that killed Steinle — a gun that was stolen from the car of a federal Bureau of Land Management agent.
The defense attorneys plan to argue that the shooting was an accidental ricochet shot, while the prosecution hopes to prove that Garcia Zarate recklessly shot at people — the standard for conviction of second-degree murder...
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For previous posts on the BLM agent and the stolen gun go here, here, and here
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