The evidence was enough for a manslaughter conviction.
She wasn’t murdered, the prosecution reached trying to put intent. However to say the man who killed her was not guilty of manslaughter is an affront to justice. His actions caused her death, whether intentional or not, that’s manslaughter.
At the very least he committed negligent homicide. Period.
It was OK for him to kill her because maybe someday, somebody might be mean to him.
They pushed hard for a first degree murder verdict, which requires not only proving that the defendant killed the victim, but that he did it intentionally, and that it was premeditated (planned or thought out beforehand).
The jury had the option of involuntary manslughter.
Sweet justice: Garcia is “accidentally” shot three times by an illegal alien.
Double Jeapordy is a constitutional right. I thought constitutional rights only belonged to citizens?
“Reviewing the SIG Sauer website shows these handguns cost $1,000 or more. You can see how defense counsel could easily argue that a homeless illegal immigrant would be unfamiliar with one.”
Absolute, pure baloney. Cost has nothing to do with it. It works like millions of other guns made by dozens of other manufacturers in the last 75 years. Red State sinks further and further into the left-wing slime.
This guy ought to be shot then hanged but, the prosecutor over charged....
cripes...this illegal alien is illegally in this country for the 6th time, making him a 4 time felon...yet he don’t know nothin from nothin.
How did he ever find his way back to this country ? just to be homeless...
Charge with and try the most serious possible offense, so that there is no way there can be a followup retry on a lesser charge?
DAs do this all the time with cops charged with murder, and lose, so they can shield them, and the city, from civil financial exposure.
In one syllable terms, the DA went into the tank for the sanctuary city's policy.
That the bullet richocet off the ground points to a lack of intent.
The prosecutor should have stuck with manslaughter
Being San Francisco it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the prosecutor did just enough to appear to be prepared and competent, but little enough to guarantee an acquittal....Remember, prosecutors are political animals, too, and we all know about Bay Area politics....
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Nothing respectable here.
Not the judge, not the jury, and not the prosecutor.
No judge should ever be allowed to instruct a jury unless the jury so requests.
In a proper court room, two things are always on trial:
~ The statutes under which the defendant was charged.
~ The defendant.
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We have been lied to about everything since the dawn of time. Why would this be different?
I know this much: if the jerk had been in his own damn hellhole and NOT here in my country she would be alive today.
A court of law does NOT have that standard because they don’t deal with THE LARGER PICTURE.
Send ALL illegals home. OUR system of law does NOT allow the innocent children of bank robbers to ‘keep the loot’ ... Send the dreamers home...
There was no first degree murder. This was a case of manslaughter. Still convicted of a felony weapon’s offence he should once again be deported. What about the victim’s estate suing Calif., SF on the original deportation issue though?
I do think that most people, even this guy, know at least that a gun is dangerous and shouldn’t be pointed at someone. Even most 5 year olds know that. On top of that, if he’s smart enough to keep crossing the border illegally and getting through the interior checkpoints, he’s not an idiot.
Manslaughter, at a minimum.
Sarah Rumpf should be named as a candidate for the Pulitzer Neo-Nazi Propaganda award. She sounds so convincing.
Seriously, search the internet for Nazi propaganda, alive and well today. They are so good at it they will have many believing Hitler was deserving of sympathy. Seriously.
“Garcia Zarate could have fired the gun and killed Steinle by accident”
Negligent homicide. Accidentally killed someone while doing something an ordinary person would know was dangerous - LIKE PULLING THE TRIGGER ON A GUN ON A CROWDED CITY STREET!