re: Poliboard lawyers: Steinle related?

Any legal victory is possible. But in light of the fact that Zarate had no record of violence AND the shooting was ruled an accident, imo it is a huge stretch to say that the City of SF should have known that an individual with no history of violence would accidentally shoot someone and is thus responsible for the accidental shooting death.

You could argue that HAD they turned over Zarate to ICE Zarate would not have accidentally shot someone in SF. But that assumes that Zarate would not have made it back into the country after being deported and the fact is he'd already accomplished that numerous times.

Is a police officer who fails to arrest someone on a marijuana possession and only hits them with a lesser charge responsible for a murder the individual commits the next day and might not have committed had the cop arrested the individual for possession of weed?