New York City: Outlawing Self-Defense

frontpagemag.com ^ | 6.28.03 | Michael Tremoglie

[Sonny M]

My understanding is that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a jury trial for any charge which is punishable by jail. States can regulate the terms of the jury - some have smaller juries for offenses punishable by less than a year's incarceration, but IMO they can't deny a jury trial if jail time is involved.

To be honest with you, I can't explain it either, but DA Hynes conceded that no jury would convict Dixon, some of the papers here wanted the whole thing dropped, but he reduced the charges and was able to move that the dixon would have faced up to a year in jail. I don't know the legal hows, but Hynes was very public about it, and Dixon was dead in the water if that went to a judge.

[GovernmentShrinker]

He had paid $500 to a firm to have it registered in New York, where gun laws have a Byzantine complexity. The firm subsequently went bankrupt and the application was not completed. Because it was not yet registered in New York State, technically Dixon possessed the gun illegally

The author obviously doesn't know much about New York City gun laws. Most applications to possess a gun -- not carry, just possess in one's home of place of business -- are rejected. This firm that Dixon shelled out money to sounds like one of those phony "credit repair" outfits.

[graycamel]

I'd move out of NYC the day I got out of jail. And I'd take a whiz on the ground as I left.

[kAcknor]

Bang!Bang!... Bang!

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[Shooter 2.5]

Write on a blackboard one hundred times:

DON'T BRING A KNIFE TO A GUNFIGHT!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Looks like NY wants to take the title of "Murder Capitol of the World" from Chicago.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bang

[hellinahandcart]

Dixon is a legal resident and a Navy vet, but he's not a citizen.

That's why he took the deal. If there was a felony conviction on his record he might have lost his green card.

So this business of "he can still vote" is in error.

There's another case here of a legal resident from the Dominican Republic, Jose Acosta, who shot and killed a serial armed robber in a bodega. Same deal, he's facing jail and then deportation for doing the neighborhood a big favor.