FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, acquitted of murder in a San Francisco case that prompted immigration debate has been denied bail while he awaits trial on federal gun charges.
FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, acquitted of murder in a San Francisco case that prompted immigration debate has been denied bail while he awaits trial on federal gun charges. San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File Michael Macor
FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, acquitted of murder in a San Francisco case that prompted immigration debate has been denied bail while he awaits trial on federal gun charges. San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File Michael Macor

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Mexican man acquitted of San Francisco murder denied bail

The Associated Press

January 08, 2018 02:52 PM

UPDATED 1 MINUTE AGO

SAN FRANCISCO

The Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco case that prompted immigration debate has been denied release from jail pending trial on federal gun charges.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate appeared in federal court Monday to face two illegal gun possession charges, which were filed after a San Francisco jury acquitted him of murder for the July 2015 fatal shooting of Kate Steinle. Garcia Zarate has been deported five times and has spent a combined 17 years in U.S. prisons for three illegal re-entry convictions before the shooting.

Garcia Zarate says he found the gun that killed Steinle under a seat on a San Francisco pier. He says it accidentally fired when he picked it up.

He was transferred from San Francisco jail to federal custody over the weekend.

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