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What is wrong with this Judge? Also NOT the first time.
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"Two counts or armed assault with intent to murder and one count each of illegal possession of a firearm and of discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building were dismissed at the request of the commonwealth."
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Hi Martha! Way to look out!
Hi Martha! Way to look out!
EJFudd
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6 months for attempted murder.
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But fail to obey the safe storage law and risk a 12-year sentence. Yeah, that all makes sense.I read 20 dismissed cases out of Worcester last. year. Things like a sawed off shotgun, obliterated serial numbers, homemade silencers-all dismissed by the ag. After Newtown-when they were trying to be "tough on gun crime". To a person, all were previously convicted criminals. All free to go!
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What you do not know from the news report is the strength of the commonwealth's case. It's possible the commonwealth felt the only eye witness's testimony of being able to recognize a face through a muzzle flash would be called into question, or that the wittness was such a dirtbag that he would suffer from a credibility problem. This may have been an attempt by the commonwealth to avoid a pesky trial it thought it could lose.
warwickben
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Why do we not make a big deal about this type of stuff...... Like there letting federal crimes go, but freak out if some one prints.....
The guy is a criminal, they know he is a criminal, so it isn't worth their time charging him with all sorts of things hoping one sticks. If he wasn't a criminal and this was a claimed self defense shooting by a license holder, they would throw the book at him. Criminals with guns? Who cares. They know as well as we do they will acquire guns and commit crimes regardless. Licensed gun holder with no intention if committing crimes? Well we just can have that now can we?
There is a difference.
There is a difference.
vickers
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I was in the process of writing an email to Senator Tarr about H.4285 when I saw this story. So I added a paragraph asking the Senator why the Commonwealth does this while at the same time infringing on the rights of law abiding gun owners.
This. Can't really blame the judge if the state doesn't have its crap together. So many criminal cases get botched because the state screws something up. There are all kinds of reasons why they probably dropped the charges.
-Mike
The feds routinely refuse to pick up federal gun cases. As much as I loathe MA, this isn't MA's fault... MA punts a lot of cases to feds and the feds simply just don't even bother picking the case up. They only pick up the ones they have a high probability of winning where the USA/AUSA has a high chance of racking up a score in the process. A typical drug dealer busted for FIP is not an attractive case unless this guy was arrested with like 10 pounds of cocaine or something and a 2 mile long rap sheet.
This is another reason why feds don't bother proseucting cases with FIP, straw purchases, etc.... the "criminal" has to be an attractive target for them to even bother. Some gangbanger who doesn't have a pot to piss in is not a good target. They'd even sometimes rather pick some random otherwise legal gun owner over that to make an example out of him/her than pick up a case involving a common street criminal. (the gun owner will drag the case out for them and make more "drama" that they can get statist JBT points for...)
-Mike
warwickben
bubba Kalashnikov
But why don't we use this info as a fu in new control law debates.
Because nobody pays attention, we do this all the time, a constant cry from the NRA is things like "well they need to enforce existing gun laws instead of making new ones!!! herp derp!!!!" but the antis don't care about that fact, they don't let that get in the way of the disarmament agenda. Anti gunners are not about reducing crime, arresting actual criminals, or gun traffickers, or any of that BS, their entire goal is to eliminate private ownership of firearms.... but you already knew that.
ETA: Food for thought- John Rosenthal (that shithead that owns the big anti billboard) and some hack named Bailey from the Glob admitted, in public, in a nationally available newspaper, that they were parties to an illegal straw purchase of a firearm involving an intermediary in NH. The feds knew about this and did nothing to any of the 3 people involved. That should pretty much tell you how they operate.... they're not going to arrest someone when that persons actions suit some kind of political agenda on the back end. Maybe if we had ever had a president in recent history who was a law and order type this would not be the case, but that is not reality and hasn't been for many years.
-Mike
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