Posted on 06/08/2024 7:39:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The St. Louis couple whose photo was seen around the country during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 had their record expunged this week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a request in January to have their convictions wiped and their law licenses restored following a misdemeanor fourth-degree assault charge in 2021. The couple also demanded the return of their guns.
Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order on Wednesday that the purpose of expungement is to give people who had rehabilitated themselves a second chance.
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Rehabilitated? Disgusting!
My sentiments exactly.
They are NOT rehabilitated and never will be. Nope.
“...the purpose of expungement is to give people who had rehabilitated themselves a second chance...”
He’s not stating the original sentencing and punishment was wrong. Not truly giving them justice.
Fourth degree misdemeanor? What is that, the equivalent of a parking fine? To have your life turned upside down and your profession taken away? Justice? Just BS in this country now.
I thought they were pardoned.
Rehabilitated? The couple was never debilitated in the first place, they were making the perfectly normal response to an attempted home invasion.
The “castle doctrine” is a valid basis for home self-defense.
Wow, about time. They should buy them new guns too.
You are correct, this decision increases the strength of that Pardon and their legal position.
Ping, may be of interest, 2A issue.
***The couple also demanded the return of their guns. ****
I remember reading of a man who had a fully registered and licensed and legally owned Thompson submachine gun in mint condition. The police raided and confiscated it.
After several years of legal wrangling, he got his submachine gun back , rusted up so bad it was wothless.
Suck on that Soros!
They were run through the wringer for 3 years.
Retribution against the accusers is required.
I think Smith and Wesson gave them a nice rifle replacement. since the scumbags ordered their other one destroyed.
Ditto on steroids for Trump.
Not in all states. In some you have to leave your house if invaded.
“He’s not stating the original sentencing and punishment was wrong. Not truly giving them justice.”
Not sure that is correct. An expungement directs the court to treat the criminal conviction as if it had never occurred which technically removes it from a defendant’s criminal record as well as the public record.
I they want to enjoy the rest of their lives they should get out of St. Louis and move to a red state.
“Judge Expunges Convictions of St. Louis Couple”
The Zeepers won’t like this...
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