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SAN FRANCISCO – The Latest on murder trial involving San Francisco pier shooting (all times local):
3:30 p.m.
The defense attorney for a Mexican national accused of fatally shooting a woman on a San Francisco pier says his client didn’t realize he had picked up a handgun when it fired.
Attorney Matt Gonzalez made the claim Monday during his opening statement at the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the 2015 shooting that touched off a national debate on illegal immigration.
Garcia Zarate has said the shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle was accidental and that he was handling a handgun he found wrapped in a T-shirt under a bench on the pier when it accidentally fired.
Gonzalez told jurors the gun, which had been stolen from the car of a law enforcement officer, is dangerous because it…
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