Posted on 07/22/2020 8:17:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
The handgun held by Patricia McCloskey at her home in the Central West End was not capable of firing when seized by police, according to a document obtained by News 4.
It’s a new development in the case against the local couple seen pointing guns outside their Central West End home last month. And it’s one that legal experts say raises very serious questions about whether the entire case can proceed.
(Excerpt) Read more at kmov.com ...
That is a lousy excuse ! Castle doctrine rules !
US Constitution; Mo. Constitution; Mo. Laws seem to provide appropriate “cover” for the couple’s actions.
Lock the DA up for sedition.
Might be a Good Thing given her trigger finger location during the event...
They’re lawyers. Once this criminal harassment is over, can you imagine the number of zeroes they’re going to ask for in the civil suit they will file against all of these morons?
Still working for me as of this post’s time.
Some kind of a copy truncation, apparently.
Fixed below.
They should, but that is not happening. She is an Affirmative Action. She is a crook. She is a member of a protected Class. She is a member of the Democrat Party. And last but not least she was elected by the people of her District which means she is who they want to represent them. Her thoughts and actions are their thoughts and actions and their thoughts and actions are her thoughts and actions. Goes back to you get the Government you deserve. The voters love for the Democrats to rule them because they[Democrats ] are just as decant , perverted, degenerate, and sorry as they are.
But,but,but,I;m a black dem..I can tamper with the evidence..Dems say so....
THAT’s not gonna stop the DA from moving forward.
She will use the old ‘finger-in-the-coat pocket argument. (Used regularly in “armed” robbery cases)
Doesn’t mean it was inoperable on the day in question.
Legal, logical, and scientific proofs are not the same things.
“Doesn’t mean it was inoperable on the day in question.”
Case is dead even if the guns were working and loaded on the day in question.
And for those that say the taxpayer will have to pay, I say good for them, their the sorry bastards illegitimate children that elected them.
It makes a difference, according to Missouri law, whether or not the firearm was operable. This is tampering with physical evidence and that's a big no no.
Key info at the link:
“ According to the lab, it fired when tested.
But the gun Patricia McCloskey had, a small handgun, examiners say, could not be test-fired as submitted.
At the request of prosecutor Chris Hinkley, the report says, the firearm was stripped and found to have been assembled incorrectly. It was then re-assembled properly, test fired and functioned as designed. Charging documents said the gun was capable of lethal use.”
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