Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez
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FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez walks into court for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. It’s been two years since Kate Steinle was randomly gunned down on a busy San Francisco pier in a shooting that set off a fierce national immigration debate. Lopez-Sanchez, the man accused of killing Steinle, is still waiting for his murder trial to be scheduled. He is set to appear in court Friday, July 14, 2017, when a trial date may get set. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)
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Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez (right) is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on July 7, 2015. More than 1,800 immigrants that the federal government wanted to deport were nevertheless released from local jails and later re-arrested for various crimes, according to a government report released July 13, 2015. The controversy was re-ignited after 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle was shot to death while walking on a San Francisco pier and authorities arrested suspect Lopez-Sanchez, who was released from jail in April even though immigration officials had lodged a detainer to try to deport him from the country for a sixth time. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Associated Press)
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Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who returned to the U.S. after multiple deportations, filed the fatal shot from a stolen government-issued firearm that killed Kate Steinle in "sanctuary city" San Francisco, authorities said.
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Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez walks into the court for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday in San Francisco. Prosecutors have charged the Mexican immigrant with murder in the waterfront shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle. (Associated Press)
