But there was one fact that Trump never mentioned in the dozens of times he spoke on the campaign trail: Jose Ines Garcia Zarate — like every other human being that enters the American criminal justice system — is innocent until found guilty by a jury of his peers. His trial finally came this fall, 10 months after Trump had already surfed above the froth of the case all the way to the White House. The criminal defenders assigned to Garcia Zarate finally had a chance to tell his side of the story, one that the American voter had not heard — that he'd picked up a paper bag containing the gun (stolen a few days earlier from the car of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger) and it accidentally fired into the concrete sidewalk before ricocheting and fatally striking Steinle. Aided by forensic evidence and video footage, Garcia Zarate's lawyers convinced a San Francisco jury to find their client not guilty of murder, although he was convicted on a much lesser gun possession charge and still faces possible prison time and deportation.