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When convicted felons are nearby guns and drugs.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Bill of Rights (From public domain.) When convicted felons are around guns and unlawful drugs, they risk exposure to substantial incarceration time. Lewis D. McCarson learned that when federal marshals came to his girlfriend's home with an arrest warrant for him. U.S. v. McCarson, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 11234 (D.C. Cir. May 27, 2008). Other than the arrest warrant, all went well for McCarson until he told the marshals that he wanted to wear his black pants, coat, and shoes on his way out the door. The marshals went to the bedroom for those articles of closing, and claim they then saw a bag of marijuana and a handgun in plain view and cocaine by the time they further opened the drawer to retrieve the handgun.  One lesson learned here: McCarson's apparel request to the marshals boomeranged back with the rank smell of feces...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).