Civil Rights,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 16, 2022
Mexican man in Steinle case pleads guilty to federal firearm felonies
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate admitted he knew he was “an alien that was unlawfully and illegally in the United States at the time and that he had previously been convicted of a felony, including the felony of illegal reentry after deportation for which he spent more than a year in federal prison” and that he possessed a loaded semi-automatic pistol.
A Mexican man who was found not guilty of murdering tourist Kathryn "Kate" Steinle on the San Francisco Pier in July 2015 has pleaded guilty to federal charges of possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing a firearm as an alien who unlawfully entered the U.S. for the second time. The maximum sentence he faces is 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
According to Monday's announcement from the U.S. Attorney's...
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