{"id":16325,"date":"2010-12-16T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16325"},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T13:07:49","slug":"if-in-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16325","title":{"rendered":"If In Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you happen to be part of my tiny audience in New Jersey, I’d like to ask that you give Governor Christie a call. \u00a0He’s got a miscarriage of justice to fix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brian Aitkin was in the process of moving from Colorado to New Jersey. \u00a0He was moving a couple of handguns which he’d bought in Colorado. \u00a0He was doing everything <\/em>by the book:<\/p>\n

According to testimony [his roommate] later gave at Aitken’s trial, before leaving Colorado Aitken researched and printed out New Jersey and federal gun laws to be sure he moved his firearms legally. Richard Gilbert, Aitken’s trial attorney, says Aitken also called the New Jersey State Police to get advice on how to legally transport his guns, although Burlington County Superior Court Judge James Morley didn’t allow testimony about that phone call at Aitken’s trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His mother, a social worker, called the police – erroneously – while worried over his son’s mental state during his divorce, which was at the time going badly (his vile pig ex-wife was withholding visitation with his kid). \u00a0The cops turned that into an excuse to search his car, which turned out the legally-stored handguns after a two-hour search. \u00a0They arrested him – regardless that he’d stored the guns precisely in accordance with New Jersey’s draconian, fascist gun laws, and that Federal law grants lawful gun owners an exception to state gun laws if they are moving from one location to another<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Aitkin had a judge even more bigoted against gun owners than the ones in Hennepin County<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The jury never heard about the moving exception<\/a>, virtually guaranteeing Brian\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n

Yet Judge Morley wouldn\u2019t allow Aitken to claim the exemption for transporting guns between residences. He wouldn\u2019t even let the jury know about it. During deliberations, the jurors asked three times about exceptions to the law, which suggests they weren\u2019t comfortable convicting Aitken. Morley refused to answer them all three times. Gilbert and Nappen, Aitken\u2019s lawyers, say he also should have been protected by a federal law that forbids states from prosecuting gun owners who are transporting guns between residences. Morley would not let Aitken cite that provision either.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian Aitken is currently serving seven years in a state prison. Now a website<\/a> and Facebook page<\/a> are asking Governor Chris Christie to pardon Aitken<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Christie has proven a sensible leader and shown political courage in taking on his state\u2019s debt-ridden \u201cSituation<\/a>.\u201d Here\u2019s hoping that Christie, a former prosecutor, will see that Aitken\u2019s continued imprisonment does nothing to serve the interests of justice.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So all you folks stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps; give the Gov a call. \u00a0This has to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you happen to be part of my tiny audience in New Jersey, I’d like to ask that you give Governor Christie a call. \u00a0He’s got a miscarriage of justice to fix. Brian Aitkin was in the process of moving from Colorado to New Jersey. \u00a0He was moving a couple of handguns which he’d bought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-pc","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16381,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions\/16381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}