It’s been two years since a woman was randomly gunned down on a busy San Francisco pier in a shooting that set off a fierce national immigration debate.

But the man accused of killing Kate Steinle is still waiting for his murder trial to be scheduled.

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Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg disagreed.

“Two years is an exceptionally, exceptionally long time,” he said, adding it could be in the suspect’s interest to drag out the proceedings because the “guy may have nothing to lose. … He’s unlikely to ever see the light of day whatever happens.”