Sentences with phrase «felony gun cases»
Judge Richard Scherer, Judge Susan Robiner, Judge Mark Wernick, Judge Joseph Klein and Judge Daniel Moreno downward depart from mandatory sentencing in felony gun cases in more than two thirds of the cases they oversee.
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• Homicide crimes, felony murder, murder cases Criminal vehicular homicide (CVH) • Sex crime charges • Drug Crime Charges • Minnesota Marijuana Laws & Defenses • Federal Court Charges • Domestic Crime Charges • Assault Charges • Theft and Property Crimes • White Collar Crimes • Guns Firearms Crimes Defense • DWI and Driving - Related Legal Problems • Juvenile Delinquency Cases • Pre-Charge Counsel, target counsel, dealing with police, etc. • Witness Representation, asserting Fifth Amendment, immcases Criminal vehicular homicide (CVH) • Sex crime charges • Drug Crime Charges • Minnesota Marijuana Laws & Defenses • Federal Court Charges • Domestic Crime Charges • Assault Charges • Theft and Property Crimes • White Collar Crimes • Guns Firearms Crimes Defense • DWI and Driving - Related Legal Problems • Juvenile Delinquency Cases • Pre-Charge Counsel, target counsel, dealing with police, etc. • Witness Representation, asserting Fifth Amendment, immCases • Pre-Charge Counsel, target counsel, dealing with police, etc. • Witness Representation, asserting Fifth Amendment, immunity
Depending upon the particular campaign finance law involved, which isn't clearly specified, there might be a criminal penalty (either a misdemeanor or a minor felony) as well, which could give rise to a probation sentence, a sentence to some period of incarceration, a period of post-release parole, criminal fines, court costs, and, at least in the case of a felony, some collateral consequences of that conviction such as a prohibition on owning a gun and ineligibility for many occupations and jobs.
In this kind of case, the state interest in the felony gun ban is not sufficiently compelling to trump the individual's constitutional right.
Though Berman doesn't believe that a Supreme Court decision recognizing a Second Amendment right to possess firearms would invalidate the federal felon gun possession law, he does foresee that it could lead to litigation in marginal cases — e.g. where an individual convicted of a non-serious felony might want to possess a handgun in the home.