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Fellow arrested during DNC convention released

Posted by David Hardy · 17 September 2008 11:37 AM

Story here. Sounds like a false arrest suit in the making. Not knowing of the convention, he checks into a Denver hotel with two hunting rifles and two handguns, all in cases. Nancy Pelosi is staying at the hotel, so over this they "evacuate" her (guns in the same building!). He winds up arrested for "unlawfully carrying a weapon," which (unless Colorado law radically diverges from most western States) isn't even laughable. In proof of which, the prosecutor was never given the file.

Hat tip to reader Mike Finch....

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I'm not sure as how the Dem convention would have any relevance since he had the guns in a case and thus was absolutely in compliance with the law.

Why does there seem to be a pattern of suspension of the COTUS around members of the government?

Posted by: Robin at September 17, 2008 01:15 PM

Ah, Nancy Pelosi was staying there. That explains it. During her stay the hotel must have been sovereign territory of San Francisco?

Posted by: JKB at September 17, 2008 01:42 PM

Well, it looks like HE hit the lottery...lucky stiff!

If he doesn't clear half-a-million from those turd-balls, his lawyer should be disbarred. Not a bad recompense for a lost hunting trip.

Oh, and can there be, any longer, any possible question about what the "political class" thinks of us lowly proles? Are we not merely squeaky wheels to be oiled and quieted - or threats to be neutralized?

Posted by: Voolfie at September 17, 2008 09:10 PM

absolute idiocy. When it comes to guns, there is no common sense left in this country.

I imagine this guy is just screwed. There's a good chance he'll never get his guns back if it was the Denver PD that took them, and if he goes to court, the city attorney will look at the liberal Denver area jury and say ... "But folks ... this was the Democrat convention. Isn't it just common sense you don't take guns to a hotel where government officials are staying?" -- and they won't find against the city.

Posted by: Steve W at September 17, 2008 09:40 PM

Couldn't he bring a federal suite for violation of his civil rights, similar to the South during Johnson's tenure?

Posted by: Alan A. at September 18, 2008 07:33 AM

"Come with me, citizen. You'll beat the rap, but you're still taking the ride."

Posted by: geekwitha.45 at September 22, 2008 10:27 AM

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