Posted on 05/06/2015 1:33:29 PM PDT by jazusamo
Is it possible for an unethical prosecutor to swap evidence?
Prediction: The case collapses on the hottest day of the summer followed by a city wide power grid failure.
You know more than I do. Or less.
The prosecutor is typically not in possession of the evidence - it's kept in a locked evidence room. So, is it possible? Of course, but it becomes one of those TV bad cop shows, where someone breaks into the evidence room or there is a conspiracy of bad cops.
I guarantee you that if the "story" was a white guy being arrested in Baltimore for carrying a spring assisted knife, then 99% of the people posting "proof" that such a knife is illegal would be singing a completely different tune.
Since when are so many Freepers so eager to find ways to make more types of tools and weapons illegal?
>> Since when are so many Freepers so eager to find ways to make more types of tools and weapons illegal?
Whoa. That’s one huge rhetorical stretch.
I think you’d better point out EXACTLY how DISCUSSING A NEWS EVENT IN THE CONTEXT OF EXISTING LAWS somehow makes me a proponent of criminalizing weapons!
Okay. Let’s discuss it. I have explained why a spring-assisted knife is not a switchblade.
Without simply posting links to other threads, please explain how/why a spring-assisted knife is illegal under the City Code of Baltimore, Maryland.
You haven’t “explained” shit.
You offered an OPINION — and then changed the subject by throwing in a whole boatload of nonsense that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Baltimore matter.
IOW you’re a waste of time.
You offered an OPINION — and then changed the subject by throwing in a whole boatload of nonsense that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Baltimore matter.
IOW you’re a waste of time.
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Nervous, you might as well get used to it, “quibblers” will plague you on FR if you respond too much to their postings. It might not be the case now (e.g. post Obama inauguration) but it used to be that “quibblers” were not tolerated at West Point. I've given up “debating” the point and will just wait until the Agendanista Baltimore DA is finally forced by court action to allow the knife in question to be examined and, likely, litigated. Only then will we know for sure whether the knife is legal in Baltimore/Maryland for CARRY.
This is not an opinion. It is a fact.
A spring-assist knife, which the arresting officer wrote in his report is the type of knife recovered, is not a switch blade. It is, therefore, not illegal under the Code of the City of Baltimore as it is written.
This is not merely my "opinion". It is based on the wording of the law as posted on Baltimore's web-site, the arresting officer's written report, and the fundamental differences in design and operation between automatic opening knives (switch blades) and spring-assisted opening knives.
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