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Trial in Kate Steinle Murder Case Delayed Until Next Year

NPR reports that the murder trial of the man accused of killing Kate Steinle, whose 2015 shooting death on a San Francisco pier became part of the national debate over illegal immigration and sanctuary city policies, is not likely to start until next year.  Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who had been deported back to his native Mexico five times before the July 1, 2015, shooting, will have his trial date set in December of this year.  

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Kathryn Steinle is photographed on a trip to visit Prague and Amsterdam in 2009. Steinle died from a single gunshot wound on July 1, 2015, while walking on Pier 14 along San Francisco’s Embarcadero with her father. (Courtesy of Nicole Ludwig

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