Daily Mail: DOJ looking to file federal charges against illegal immigrant acquitted of Kate Steinle murder after Attorney General Jeff Sessions voices outrage
* The Department of Justice is considering filing federal charges against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate after he was acquitted on murder charges Thursday night
* Zarate was an undocumented Mexican citizen who had illegally crossed the border six times when he was charged in the death of Kate Steinle
* He was acquitted on charges of first and second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon after lawyer said gunshot was an accident
* Sarah Isgur Flores, the Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice, confirmed the DOJ was looking into charges including felony reentry
* If convicted in federal court of federal reentry, Zarate could serve up to 10 years in addition to the year he has left on his one charge - felony weapon possession
* Zarate was initially scheduled to be deported after his sentence, and both Sessions and Flores have blames Steinle's death on sanctuary cities
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is looking into filing federal charges against the illegal immigrant who was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of Kate Steinle.
Sarah Isgur Flores, the Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice, appeared on Fox & Friends just 12 hours after the verdict was handed down to confirm this news, explaining that the department might by launching their own case against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate.
'We're looking at pursuing federal charges in this case, and I think it's important to reassure everyone who is concerned about this that we will prosecute this to the fullest extent available under the law,' said Flores.
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WNU Editor: This is why the wall is going to be eventually built. My brother lives south of San Francisco, and I go there every year. Walking along the pier is something that I do all the time when I am there, and I am well aware of where Kate Steinle was murdered. It is also a case that I have been following very closely. I am also aware of the high homeless population that is there, and how they can be threatening. When I heard this verdict last night .... I just shook my head. This suspect is very dangerous, and even though he will be deported .... everyone knows that he will just come back and commit more crimes. But even though one can make the case that this suspect is insane, the real insanity label belongs to this jury. What the hell were they thinking?
1 comment:
# of the jurors were immigrants.
There are immigrants and then there are immigrants.
People will look very closely to see if there is jury nullification. They will also look at everything the lawyers said in defense of their client.
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