DC Court Allows 2A Challenges to Prior Convictions for DC Handgun Ban

[Bubbles]

I do have to wonder how many people this affects.

Highest Court in D.C. Allows Second Amendment Challenges to Long-Ago Convictions for Violating D.C. Handgun Ban

Magnus v. U.S., decided today, concludes that a defendant who pled guilty in 1996 to violating D.C. handgun ban can now have that plea set aside given D.C. v. Heller, assuming his conduct was indeed protected by the Second Amendment (and didn’t, for instance, involve the possession of a gun to facilitate an illegal drug transaction). “A conviction for conduct that is not criminal, but is instead constitutionally protected, is the ultimate miscarriage of justice,” and a defendant can therefore ask to have it set aside (via a petition for coram nobis relief) even many years later.

 

[Rocketmedic]

Good! Its the right thing to let these people reclaim their rights illegally stripped by the courts.

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

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Very good.



The way it should be.

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[bushmaster1313]

Curious if there was some nasty business dropped in return for the plea on violating the ban.

 

[kludge]

It's the right thing to do.

... no actually the right thing to do would be for them do it without being asked.

 

[mgkdrgn]

This ought to keep the lawyers in DC fed for a while ...