Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate is demanding documents “pertaining to vindictive prosecution and collusion” with the state government in the case against him.
In November 2017, a San Francisco jury found Zarate not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle.
Zarate, an illegal alien who has been deported five times, claims he accidentally shot Steinle in July 2015 in California.
The jury did find him guilty of felony possession of a weapon.
Not long after his trial, the Department of Justice issued a warrant for Zarate’s arrest for violating the terms of his 2015 prison release documents.
He was then charged