A San Francisco jury returned a verdict of not guilty for an illegal alien who was charged in the killing of Kate Steinle, the case that President Trump took up as a symbol of a broken immigration system during his 2016 campaign.
Why did they find him not guilty?
The defense claimed that Jose Ines Garcia Zarate did not intend to kill Steinle, and that the gun went off by itself when he picked it up.
The gun had been stolen from a federal Bureau of Land Management ranger a week prior to the shooting – Zarate claimed he had found it on the ground when it went off.