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Criminal

Jan. 10, 2018

Tony Serra adds another politically charged case to his resume

The legendary and notoriously offbeat defense litigator J. Tony Serra reentered the public consciousness this week when he began representing Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the Mexican national who was accused of murdering Kate Steinle in 2015.

Tony Serra adds another politically charged case to his resume
Tony Serra, the San Francisco lawyer known for taking on radical cases, vows to make President Donald Trump the center of his defense on behalf of a Mexican who killed a woman in 2015.

The legendary and notoriously offbeat defense litigator J. Tony Serra reentered the public consciousness this week when he began representing Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the Mexican national accused of the murdering Kate Steinle in 2015.

A San Francisco County Superior Court jury found Zarate not guilty of the major charges in the state’s case last month, only finding him guilty of a gun possession charge. Now he’s been charged in feder...

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