A homeless, undocumented immigrant was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges by a San Francisco jury late Thursday, in a case that drew national attention to so-called sanctuary city policies. After six days of deliberations, a jury found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty in the killing of 32-year-old Kate Steinle on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015. The defense had argued that the incident was a tragic accident, and that the gun Garcia Zarate, 45, was holding discharged accidentally and the bullet ricocheted for 78 feet before hitting Steinle. Garcia Zarate was convicted of a lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun. The high-profile case attracted national attention after it was found Garcia Zarate had been deported five times before, and had been released from jail in San Francisco after a drug charge despite a federal request to hold him for deportation again to Mexico.
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