Poliboard lawyers: Steinle related?

Very highly unlikely.

See: LINK

ETA after above post: I also find it highly unlikely that any court would consider their actions gross negligence.

ETA2: I would like to hear an explanation of this, as I can't conceive of a non spurious argument for how the state violated her civil rights: "They also will likely file a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action for a violation of their daughter's civil rights."

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?

The high school football player that was killed by illegals in California family filed a suit against the city and it got thrown out. Can't remember the kids name but his killers were found guilty

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Considering the holding in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, I can't conceive of how any of this would play out the way OP would like.

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I’m sure there is a ton of precedent of California courts favoring lawlessness and giving them the chance to write the law. In this case, the killer admitted he went to SF because it was a sanctuary city.

Can the family file the suit outside of California or maybe in a federal court? Again, I’m woefully ignorant here. However, as a casual observer, if the city was not a sanctuary city, the killer is not even there in the first place.

As a full disclaimer, I'm a criminal defense attorney licensed to practice in the state of Louisiana, so I'm by no means an expert when it comes to the OP's question. With that said, what little I remember on the subject tells me that it would be one hell of a longshot to get past a MSJ, much less reach any kind of jury award.

But, I very well could be wrong

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And in theory, a state wouldn't have drunk driving deaths if it outlawed alcohol

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Apples and oranges.
In this case, the state is violating/disregarding a federal law.

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Apples and oranges.
In this case, the state is violating/disregarding a federal law.

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Fine, then someone in Colorado smoked themselves silly and blew through a red light. You'd end up with the same dismissal.

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Interesting how the whole "states rights" is readily and so easily abandoned here.

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Nice try, but enforcing our borders and the laws pertaining to it is a function of the federal gov’t.

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I would argue that you have the same reason to sue.

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I agree with you that you'd have the same reason; it's simply my opinion that reason isn't good enough, from a legal perspective