The illegal immigrant acquitted of killing a woman in California was sentenced on June 6 to time served on a federal charge.
Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate is a Mexican who was deported five times before being accused of killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle in San Francisco on July 1, 2015.
Garcia-Zarate has acknowledged firing the shot that killed Steinle but claimed it was accidental. He was acquitted of murder by a jury in late 2017, with jurors convicting him of being a felon in possession of a gun.
A few months later, the defendant was sentenced to time served for that conviction.
Garcia-Zarate was indicted on three federal counts—being a felon and carrying a gun, being an illegal alien and carrying a gun, and criminal forfeiture—around the time of his partial acquittal, but because of various delays, including questions about the man’s mental competency to stand trial, the federal case took longer to resolve….