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: Grits for Breakfast

Free speech, voting, other rights reinstated for ex-felons; after Heller, why not gun ownership?

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In the wake of the Supreme Court's Heller decision ascribing to gun ownership the status of an individual "right," Doc Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy has been wondering whether:the Court's forceful embrace of an individual "right of law-abiding, responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home" could create huge headaches for federal and state prosecutors in the day-to-day operation of the criminal justice system.In my view, a serious commitment to the concepts and principles developed by the Court in Heller could impact many aspects of the day-to-day operation of modern criminal justice systems. As I have stressed before, felon-in-possession prohibitions and severe federal sentences might be subject to new attacks in the wake of Heller...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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