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updated: 5/8/2018 4:44 PM
Judge skeptical that San Francisco gun charge is vindictive
By PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge expressed skepticism Tuesday of a Mexican national's claim that he's the target of a vindictive federal prosecution after a San Francisco jury acquitted him of murder in a case at the center of a heated national debate over immigration.
Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate and his lawyer contend federal prosecutors were politically motivated when they charged him with felony gun possession five days after he was acquitted on state charges of murder in the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier.
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