He was carrying a Colt .380 pistol in Washington DC. He pleaded guilty to a charge of Attempt Carrying a Pistol w/o a License (22-3294(a)(1)) and Unregistered Firearms (6- 2376) in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
At the time of his charges, an attempted crime was a misdemeanor (§22-1803) in the District of Columbia and carried a maximum sentence of 180 days imprisonment. Possession of an unregistered firearm in the District of Columbia is a misdemeanor and carries a maximum sentence of not more than one-year imprisonment. For the above plea, Dr. Morin was sentenced to Sixty Days, suspended, three months Supervised Probation and twenty hours of community service.