Judge Rules Illegal Immigrant Will Stand Trial in Murder of Kate Steinle

Sep. 4, 2015 12:39pm
Jon Street

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has ruled that a man at the center of the national immigration debate will stand trial on a murder charge in the shooting death of a young San Francisco woman.

San Francisco Judge Brendan Conroy made the decision Friday after a preliminary hearing.

Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle (STYN-lee) on July 1. Steinle was shot in the back as she walked with her father along the waterfront.

Lopez-Sanchez, a 45-year-old Mexican national, acknowledged shooting Steinle but said the gun he claimed to have found fired accidentally.

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A large photo of Kathryn “Kate” Steinle who was killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, is shown while her dad Jim Steinle testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, July 21, 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The shooting triggered a national debate over immigration after it was revealed that the Sheriff’s Department had released Lopez-Sanchez despite a federal request to detain him for possible deportation.

Lopez-Sanchez was previously deported five times.

San Francisco and other cities and counties across the state have enacted sanctuary policies of ignoring so-called detainer requests.

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Deferring to Mexico's "no death penalty" the guy will not face that. He will be bck again, someday. We are so close to being governed by Mexico, soon it will be.

he should get the chair

The fact this article and this court acts like there was ever any doubt about trying this guy for Murder says a lot dont it?

W

Another huge cost added to Americans tax bill. What do you suppose a trial of this scope will cost? When I joined ALIPAC we had had a local bust of five illegal alien drug distributors. I read that the investigation and prosecution costs amounted to one million dollars---so that's not figuring the incarceration costs.

We should cut off aid to Mexico in exchange for the billions of dollars in criminal costs they are imposing on us. These people are not really poor---there are all kinds of private AND governmental programs in their own countries. They are probably so ego driven and selfish that they don't even bother to find out.