Judge throws out concealed carry charge against Bartlett

cantonRep.com ^ | 11-9-2011 | Staff

[Total Package]

A judge threw out the concealed carry charge against a driver at the center of a controversial traffic stop.

After city prosecutors finished their case Wednesday afternoon, Municipal Court Judge Stephen Belden granted the defense motion to dismiss the most serious charge against William Bartlett of Brewster, arguing there was not enough evidence to continue the trial.

[RetiredTexasVet]

The requirement to state that you have a CHL and statements about the firearm were changed last year. It is not longer required because the CHL is linked to your license. Common sense and courtesy should be followed and I have not received any flak from Texas state troopers or other police when stopped at checkpoints although I still inform them. Other states may be different.

[glock rocks]

Good point.

[Peet]

Unless they pull his post cert with a felony, he’ll just move and continue.

True, that. We had one of those two towns north of me -- she'd pull her sidearm on traffic stops for the most bizarre "reasons". They finally unloaded her after a lot of bad publicity on the media. (They hate that kind of attention.)

She moved one state north and within a couple months the same story started popping up there. That town had the smarts to dump her in a hurry. Don't know where she went from there.

My point (like yours) is that letting these people go without consequences just moves the problem, not solves it.