Constitutional Law

Fellow arrested during DNC convention released

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....

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).