NOGALES, Ariz.—The public defender representing an elderly Arizona man accused of shooting and killing an illegal alien trespassing on his borderland property in January said the case has become “highly politicized” in the weeks following his arrest.
“This essentially lit a match over an incredibly intense political power keg and, predictably, there was an explosion,” said defense attorney Brenna Larkin at a bail reduction hearing for her client, George Alan Kelly, in Nogales, Arizona, on Feb. 22.
