Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
The Court of Appeals released its opinion (unreported, but available on the court website) in Hockenson v. State.\u00a0 I find it troubling.<\/p>\n
I grant there\u2019s a difference between having a fundamental right in the first instance, and petitioning to have that right restored after commission of a crime.\u00a0 But the explanation given by the Court of Appeals reveals an anti-gun mindset which explains why Second Amendment jurisprudence lags so far behind First Amendment cases.<\/p>\n
The guy was 19 when he committed an assault and got 5 years of probation.\u00a0 It\u2019s been 15 years since the offense during which he completed his probation, served in the military, married, has a child and holds down a full-time job.\u00a0 If anybody could be said to have \u2018turned his life around,\u2019 it\u2019s this guy.\u00a0 But since there are no set standards to determine \u201cgood cause\u201d to restore your rights, the court is free to act on whim.<\/p>\n
In this particular case, the trial court denied the request because the \u2018violent facts surrounding the conviction do not demonstrate the maturity of judgment necessary for the court to find a significant level of comfort with restoring his rights.\u2019\u00a0 Well, duh.\u00a0 He was a dumb kid.\u00a0 He did a dumb thing. If you\u2019re only going to look at what happened at the time of the crime, ignoring everything that has happened since, then nobody can ever have his rights restored.\u00a0 The trial court\u2019s rationale is idiotic but since there are no standards (and the judiciary is composed entirely of Liberals appointed by Democrats who carefully avoid setting standards that would ensure equal justice for all), the Court of Appeals lets the ruling stand.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s particularly galling to compare this case with Democrats\u2019 insistence on freeing killers and restoring their rights, not because of anything the felon has done to turn his life around, but solely because they want to pump up the number of likely Democrat voters.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But Hockenson served in the military, is a shooter, and is raising his kids, so he’s probably Republican.\u00a0 Not a priority.<\/p>\n
As Kevin Williamson points out in\u00a0The End Is Near\u00a0<\/em>– it’s really absurd that we give judges as much untrammeled authority as we do, since so many of them are idiots.<\/p>\n
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