Posted on 07/23/2020 6:46:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
St. Louis prosecutor ordered crime lab to reassemble Patricia McCloskeys gun
ST. LOUIS The gun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable when it arrived at the St. Louis police crime lab, but a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardners staff ordered crime lab experts to disassemble and reassemble it and wrote that it was readily capable of lethal use in charging documents filed Monday, 5 On Your Side has learned.
In Missouri, police and prosecutors must prove that a weapon is readily capable of lethal use when it is used in the type of crime with which the McCloskeys have been charged.
Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley ordered crime lab staff members to field strip the handgun and found it had been assembled incorrectly. Specifically, the firing pin spring was put in front of the firing pin, which was backward, and made the gun incapable of firing, according to documents obtained by 5 On Your Side.
Firearms experts then put the gun back together in the correct order and test-fired it, finding that it worked.
Crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly of the gun, according to the documents.
Patricia McCloskey and her husband, Mark McCloskey, have said the handgun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable because they had used it as a prop during a lawsuit they once filed against a gun manufacturer. In order to bring it into a courtroom, they made it inoperable.
Their attorney, Joel Schwartz, confirmed to 5 On Your Side that the McCloskeys intentionally misplaced the firing pin on the gun and that it was in that condition when Patricia McCloskey waved it at protesters and turned it into their former attorney Al Watkins.
Its disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of the community, Schwartz said.
A spokeswoman for Gardner wrote: We cant comment on a pending case.
Malicious prosecution under color of authority.
The homeowners are attorneys who ‘broke’ the gun in order to allow it as evidence in another court case. So they knew it was inoperable at the time of the incident. State law prevents prosecution if weapon is not operable.
Loss of BAR license should be automatic. As well as ability to serve in any public office of trust.
There are no winners or friends on either side of this one.
Now I know what No justice - No peace actually means..
The McKloskey’s had intentionally made the gun inoperable so that it could be brought into a court room in a previous case. They knew it was inoperable at the time it was brandished.........The DA’s office is a travesty of justice. Gardner should be disbarred permanently...............
SOROS is cheap.
He gets what he pays for..................
We don't know that.
If I rob a bank with a handgun and get arrested 3 days later they won't drop the armed robbery charge just because the firing pin spring has been reversed.
Think about it. If all a criminal has to do is disable his gun after the crime to avoid gun charges crime would be a piece of cake.
Cant touch the DA because shes,,,,,,well, we all know the rest of the tune.
A dim bulb? Her press statements make Biden sound eloquent.
Let me guess , Black ,Lesbian and Soros Puppet
From another thread, the pistol had been used in a previous court case by the lawyers under charges and had been deliberately made inoperative to bring it into the courtroom.
They apparently had not corrected the problem with the gun.
I think you are missing a vital piece of info. That which they are charged with requires the firearm to be operable. If they had robbed a bank the condition of the firearm would be irrelevant.
Why haven’t they been arrested yet, Why does our side always wait to long to do anything?
It would be relevant for armed robbery if the law required a working weapon.
My point is if any crime requires a working weapon and the gun recovered days later just has a spring reversed I don't think it's reasonable to let the perp off.
> McCloskey’s used that gun “as a prop in a lawsuit against gun manufacturers....”
Who would grab a non-functioning firearm? No wonder she casually flags her husband several times they both knew it was only a prop. Did the rent-a-mob know?
This fact is making me think the entire episode is lawfare to impinge on everyones self-defense rights.
Tampering with evidence? Seems like I remember that once being illegal.
It seems that the only people who are being charged with crimes are law-abiding citizens. Upside down, backwards and sideways.
This is right out of the film Shooter where Wahlbergs character swapped firing pins among his weapons, rendering them all, including the murder weapon inoperable.
So the Judge could throw her in the slammer for contempt and sanction the prosecution by dismissing the case.
It could happen, but I’m not gonna hold my breath.....................
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