At issue, is whether that gun went off accidentally, which is what the defense has said. We told our legal analysts about this new development, and he said it is slykely th ly likelyo get a look at the trigger, how much pressure it took to make that gun go off, to pull that trigger. Prosecutors believe it was intentionally fired. That the prosecution did fire it on purpose. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate says he picked up the gun, he found it on the ground and it just fired. Prosecutors do believe he aimed and deliberately fired it. The bullet hit kate steinle in the back and killed her. This happened on pier 14 two years ago. She was there with her father. We saw the defense team walk into the courtroom, it was about 10 00. I asked them if they had any comment, if they could tell us anything about their client during these deliberations process. They just said no comment. The jury is not scheduled to deliberate tomorrow. So if theres no verdict t by about 4ru 3 30, looks theyl back on monday
Towards novato and spilling in to petaluma. Quarter mile visibility there. A half mile in novato. So that is going to be around through the entire morning commute. A beautiful picture from mt. Tamalpais of the friendly skies, if you will. If you will. At noon, 58 to 62. 54 at 7 00. Lets find out if the roads are friendly this morning. Mike, they are pretty friendly. A look at the traffic maps and youll notice its all green out there. There was an Early Morning fatal accident in the sonoma area. Highway 116 at east bonness road. It doesnt look like lanes are blocked at this point but you could see slowing if youre driving in the area. Westbound 580 so you can see youre under 40 miles an hour out of tracy and then very slow as you make your way into the Altamont Pass so that stretch from tracy out to dublin is now 39 minutes, a little bit of slowing there. Southbound 680 and highway 85 in the south bay. Thank you, frances. Back to that story about American Airlines. If you are traveling
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Country. Lyanne melendez has been covering this extensively. Stunning decision, lyanne. It would be an understatement to say everybody here is surprised with regard to this verdict. I think many people were at least expecting Involuntary Manslaughter and that was not the case here. Again, for those of you joining us, the jury decided that in terms of first degree murder, not guilty, Second Degree murder, not guilty, and again Involuntary Manslaughter, not guilty. Now, there was one guilty verdict here, and that was possession of a firearm. And, you know, thats very interesting because i asked jeff odachi, the public defender, how is it possible that you find Jose Ines Garcia zarate not guilty on all those charges but yet you find him guilty of possessing a firearm . He says that happens because the jury perhaps decided that even holding, for example, if he found that gun as the defense always argued, if he found it and held it in his hand, he knew that it could be dangerous holding tha
Zarate found not guilty on the manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic charge. So clearly the jury bought the defense argue that the shooting and killing of 32 yearold kate steinle two summers ago on a crowded pier was an accident. This has been a case chockful of weapons experts, there was also very emotional testimony from steinles father on that first day of the trial. He described how his daughter who was walking arm and arm with him on pier 14 fell to the ground after being shot in the back. The bullet was a ricochet and the defense argument was that the gun west of previously stolen from a park rangers car accidentally went off as he unwrapped it from a rag. Prosecution experts say there is no way for the gun to misfire and that someone had to pull that trigger. Here is what the San Francisco District Attorneys Office had to say about the verdict. The jury came back with the verdict that they did. Well respect that decision. But again, cant stress this enough, this really i