Rough Justice?

[caddyman]

Has anyone seen this reported elsewhere than here and, increasingly on US blogs? Even for the law courts, it seems bizarre to convict someone for handing in a fire arm.

I do realise that what's reported is rarely quite what happened and there may well be more to this than meets the eye: even local newspapers are willing to go for the story ahead of the facts.

Whatever the wording of the law, the jury can fail to convict if they think no offence has taken place. I for one would like more background.

Comments

[phil99.livejournal.com]

It's a ludicrous story, ludicrous not because it's definitely untrue but ludicrous because I can't believe that this would ever happen!

I get the "legal argument" bit that says there's no defence "in law", but I don't believe that the police/courts can be THAT inflexible?

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I guess the initial police officer could have chosen not to prosecute but once that choice had been made getting to this point is pretty inevitable.

The real story will probably be told in sentencing, assuming the judge has the option to come up with something derisory to prove that they felt the guy did nothing wrong.

If we can take what is written in the report at face value then it's really just another reminder that the system isn't actually designed to help the people.

[phil99.livejournal.com]

I would just like to add that since reading this story I have changed my opinion on this, and believe the guy in question is a prat.

That is all :)