No overcharging in this case occurred. The prosecution simply failed to dumb it down enough for an illegal in san Francisco. If you are a white guy wearing a MAGA hat and you did this, you would be looking at life in the slammer. The prosecutor followed the law and his duty to bring appropriate charges, including alternative charges where the jury could find guilty for lesser crimes. At a certain point he just could not take the San Francisco out of the case. I don't know how prosecutors get in office there- whether appointed or elected- but if you are a prosecutor in a state where you are elected and you did not protect the people by bringing murder charges then you are not going to be re-elected- not because it is politics but because you are not performing your oath of office.
I find it telling that the braindead liberals convicted him of a possession charge but ignored the actual harm he caused. That fits their worldview. People should be severely punished for having a gun but criminals should be let off for actually using them in a crime.
It looks like jury nullification to me. The criminal could get out based on time served for the weapons conviction.
All the tards here and in San Francisco are as happy as clams at high tide over this, but they don't think any further out than the end of their noses. It is the daca kids that will get hurt by this type of case. The lefty's think they do not have to give anything on border security to get a daca deal but they are holding no cards whatsoever and things like the steinle case will just put legislators under more and more pressure from their constituents to do something about illegals. So the tards can have their little fun today talking about how whites deserve to be shot to compensate for past injustices against minorities but they better start figuring out how to get trump in a better mood before daca expires in march. Just saying "fuck you take that whitey" is not going to be a workable strategy beyond today.
This is great news for Trumps agenda though. One of the nice things about Trump is he has been shining the light on quite a few inequities that a lot of us already knew about. Thank God he has shown the media for what they actually are. Trump is refreshing.
The jury did have the option to convict for man slaughter but the prosecution did not present a case for criminal neglect. Remember they are only supposed to take the facts as presented in court. The prosecution did not present a scenario for man slaughter. This verdict lies at the feet of the prosecution. Other people are blaming San Francisco liberals etc but if the prosecution doesn’t leave room for criminal neglect or present evidence for it, how can the jury reasonably come to that decision?
So the reality is that the "Sanctuary" of "Sanctuary Cities" should be extended to illegal immigrant felons as well? The Left can argue that someone who wants a border wall is a Nazi and that Dreamers and undocumented immigrant families who work hard should stay in the USA, but what is the rationale for providing Sanctuary to someone with a clear record of criminality? How is releasing a criminal undocumented immigrant back into American society a good idea? Does it somehow make a society less racist and more diverse? Explain to me why this is a good thing? I think that the American SJW Left is now at a point where if a non-white person of color is in America then they have made it a better place based on that fact alone. Simply by being in the USA they have made it a better place with their presence alone. Who cares what they do after they get here!
This is completely the wrong way to look at this decision but sadly how many people will. This case should have never been an election issue. Most people never bothered to learn the facts of the case and assumed Lopez was some sort of homocidal maniac. That pressured the prosecution to overreach.
One fine day Mother Nature will take care of San Francisco in the form of an epic earthquake. Can't wait.
Same legal system that didn't convict Zarate of accidentally killing Steinle.Same legal system that a jury didn't convict a cop shooting a man in back on video or not even pressing charges for police choking a man to death or police severing a mans spine while in their custody. The US justice system indeed allows a murderer to hunt a black teen from his car,get out of his car and continue hunting him when the teen runs away from him and then murder him and claim self defense. The US justice system is fvcked up.Republicans only think its fvcked up when white people don't get justice though.