Tag: Garcia Zarate

Welcome to the Harvard Lunch Club Political Podcast for December 5, 2017 – number 152 – it’s the San Francisco Dodges a Bullet edition of the show with your hosts Hartford radio guy Todd Feinburg and nanophysicist Mike Stopa.

Today we have special guest and good friend (really, she’s a friend…we have had a beer together at a restaurant and everything. I think it was twice even) Jessica Vaughan. Jessica is the Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies and about as knowledgeable as anyone in America about immigration issues. (And, did I mention? she’s a friend).

Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. Garcia Zarate: Prior Convictions Are Best Evidence

 

The Kate Steinle verdict last Thursday by an uninformed San Francisco jury was our criminal justice system’s latest affront to common sense.

Much of the furor about this miscarriage of justice relates to Zarate’s status as an illegal criminal alien who had been deported five times before sneaking back into the country, stealing or possessing a stolen weapon, and killing Kate.

The most outrageous circumstance arising from the trial of Garcia Zarate, however, is that the jurors were not permitted to know the details of Zarate’s seven prior felony convictions, nor were they allowed to know about his five prior deportations.