Alien acquitted in Steinle shooting gets time served, transferred to feds

By Chris Eger

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, arrested in the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle on a pier, is led into the San Francisco Hall of Justice for his 2015 arraignment. (Photo: Michael Macor/Reuters)
Mexican national Jose Ines Garcia Zarate would have walked free after sentencing last week but instead was transferred to federal custody on weapon charges.
The man tried and found not guilty of shooting Kate Steinle was sentenced by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Samuel Feng to time served on his gun possession charge and was subsequently transferred to a federal detention facility on Friday. Feng swatted away a request by his attorneys for a new trial in the case and sentenced him to three years, the maximum allowable under California law on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Since being arrested he had served past that amount when other sentencing parameters were weighed.
“He has actually spent around 400 days longer than the maximum sentence,” said Francisco Ugarte, one of Garcia Zarate’ attorneys.
The Mexican national, listed by four aliases on his federal indictment handed down last month, had at least seven felonies and five deportations under his belt and was the subject of a federal detainer order

Source: Guns.com