Of first degree murder, Second Degree murder, not guilty of manslaughter. Guilty only of one charge, possession of a firearm. Team coverage in and outside the krors. Lyanne melendez has covered the trial from the beginning. Reporter it took six days for the jury to reach this verdict. I would calculate about 28 hours or so of deliberations. Many people were surprised by the verdict, again not guilty of murder, not guilty of assault with semiautomatic weapon and as you mentioned, guilty of possession of a gun. Now that one really surprised me and made little sense to me. This is the explanation given by the public defender jeff adachy. They heard the evidence, they deliberated as a group, they heard read back testimony, looked at physical evidence and rendered a verdict to best of their abilities in accordance to the law. Verdict we werent hoping for. Both sides fought very hard but again the jury is the one, the jurors are the ones to make the determination on the case and we will resp
Determination on the case and we will respect that decision. Reporter and that was Matt Gonzalez, defense attorney and spokesperson for the District Attorneys office. Hear from jeff and his explanation as to why Garcia Zarate was found guilty of possession of a firearm. If we could have that please. They heard the evidence, they deliberated as a group, they heard read back testimony, they looked at physical evidence, and they rendered a verdict to the best of their abilities in accordance with the law. It was a verdict we were not hoping for. I know that both sides fought very hard, but again the jury reporter we will hear eventually from jeff adachy. Apologies. After the verdict was read, defendant jose inez Garcia Zarate did not react but later got up and hugged Matt Gonzalez, hi attorney. And gonzalez maintained all along his client found the stolen gun at the pier wrapped in piece of cloth, if you remember, picked it up and accidentally fired. I want to also mention that that posse
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