Posted on 11/09/2016 4:00:52 PM PST by marktwain
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East Providence Police Chief Christopher J. Parella is in trouble with the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Again. He failed to issue licenses to carry handguns to three more applicants, without explaining any reason for doing so.
From providencejournal.com:
The law reads that a city or town's licensing authority "shall" issue a license when it appears that the applicant has a good reason to fear an injury to his or her person or property or has "any other proper reason" to carry. A proper showing of need is not a component of the law, the court said.Before the Supreme Court ruling in April of 2015, the City Police Chief there had not issued a permit for the previous 10 years. The court did not impose any penalty on the errant Chief Panrella, who has been in the position a little more than a year, other than to send the applicants back, and order him to come up with an explanation for refusal of the permits. He has 90 days to do so.
In the court's recent ruling, issued on Oct. 25, the justices threw out Parella's denial of concealed permits to three residents and directed that new decisions be issued within 90 days that include the chief's reasoning.
"It's very frustrating that citizens have to hire a lawyer just to obtain compliance with the Supreme Court ruling," said David J. Strachman, who represents the three applicants. The law is not discretionary, as the city has argued, but mandatory if an applicant shows a proper reason to carry, he said.
Strachman criticized East Providence police in court papers for their "troubling history" of "flagrantly ignoring" the high court's mandate and refusal to comply with state law.
...I wonder if the court will have the police pay the legal expenses these patriots are forced to shell out to exercise their Second Amendment rights....
Unfortunately, only if the state’s concealed carry statute says that they can. Legislators may have erroneously believed that law enforcement would actually obey the law and not mandated sanctions.
Why didn’t the judge just JAIL HIM FOR CONTEMPT?
A clear violation of the Second Amendment.
> Why didnt the judge just JAIL HIM FOR CONTEMPT?
They don’t serve donuts in prison and thought he might go into sugar withdrawal?
Well at least porkie is only wearing a colonel’s rank .... most of the two bit flunkies like to wear 5 stars to shine on their inflated egos.
That boy is well fed.
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