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NY Judge Rapped for Approving His Own Concealed Carry Permit, Accidental Gun Discharge in Chambers
abajournal.com ^
| Aug 27, 2012
| Martha Neil
Posted on 08/29/2012 12:34:38 PM PDT by real saxophonist
A New York judge who has been threatened several times during his nearly 20 years on the bench decided he wanted to get a concealed-carry permit and take a loaded firearm into the Tioga County courthouse at which he worked.
However, although there was no rule against having a gun in chambers, Judge Vincent Sgueglia should not have approved his own concealed-carry permit, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said in an opinion (PDF) earlier this month.
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To: real saxophonist
The Honorable Plaxico Burress Presiding
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posted on
08/29/2012 12:40:50 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: real saxophonist
...Judge Vincent Sgueglia... Youse gotta problem wit dat?
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posted on
08/29/2012 12:42:12 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: real saxophonist
...as Sgueglia was trying to repair a faulty mechanism that cocked the .38-caliber Smith and Wesson and rotated the cylinder.Probably messing with the internal lock and pulled the trigger to see if it was unlocked.
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posted on
08/29/2012 12:44:01 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(CTHULHU 2012 - Why vote for a Lesser Evil?)
To: real saxophonist
So he was playing with his pistol behind the bench, and it prematurely went off half-cocked?
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posted on
08/29/2012 12:46:19 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Vote for Paul Ryan 2012...... oh, and that other guy running on his ticket that's not Obama.)
To: OB1kNOb
It’s a classic case. He got his booger hook caught on the bang switch.
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posted on
08/29/2012 12:47:55 PM PDT
by
infool7
(The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
To: real saxophonist
...as Sgueglia was trying to repair a faulty mechanism that cocked the .38-caliber Smith and Wesson and rotated the cylinder. While it was loaded?
Q: What do you call the fellow who finishes last in his class at law school?
A: "Your Honor."
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posted on
08/29/2012 12:56:41 PM PDT
by
Fido969
To: real saxophonist
Guns for me, but not for thee, peasant...
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posted on
08/29/2012 1:05:19 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
To: Sax
Doncha hate those accidental discharges?
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posted on
08/29/2012 1:44:49 PM PDT
by
LaserJock
To: OB1kNOb
that’s why they have the big robes
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posted on
08/29/2012 2:54:01 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: Fido969
My stepdad was the County judge, but he never went to college, nor of course, law school.
He did carry a .357 in the court room though.
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posted on
08/29/2012 3:49:24 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: Sax
thankful i wasn't eating or drinking when i read that...
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posted on
08/29/2012 4:22:29 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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