Sentences with phrase «of gun courts»

At Tuesday night's forum, the candidates discussed the establishment of gun courts, funding for initiatives and community policing.

Perez Williams on the campaign trail said she would prioritize the city's poverty issues, fill the remaining police officer vacancies in the Syracuse Police Department and entertain the idea of a gun court where all gun crimes would be heard by a single judge.

Not exact matches

IMETs can not simply cherry - pick the 50 pages of «smoking gun» evidence that support their case; Canadian courts demand that prosecutors hand over to the defence virtually every document handled during the investigation.

He called on Clinton to release her own list of potential Supreme Court nominees, as he did this week, and said her list and his would be «day and night» in terms of views on gun rights.

In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as court said that protection applies at a local level as well.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

Under federal law, the shooter shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

United States Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at U.S. Supreme Court, Reuters Trump stops short of full endorsement of gun proposals, Washington Post

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment to allow for significant gun control legislation.

As with those of similar convictions in civilian courts, the records are supposed to block defendants from buying guns.

When the lawsuit reached the Connecticut Supreme Court, gun control advocates, school officials and emergency doctors who treated victims of assault rifle fire submitted amicus briefs in favor of the lawsuit.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

Particularly in light of the Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban and found Americans had an individual right to a firearm — a 5 - 4 decision in which Stevens wrote the primary dissenting opinion — Stevens called the Second Amendment a barrier to «constructive gun control legislation.»

Under federal law, Kelley shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

Attackers gunned down an elderly Christian couple late Sunday inside their Baghdad home, the latest in a string of religious - rooted violence that has spurred international outcry and a full - court press for justice from Iraqi authorities.

Sircuts, he was gunned down in a jail facing charges in a country where one is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

A mother from the US has appeared in court after being accused of using a stun gun to get her teenage... More

A mother from the US has appeared in court after being accused of using a stun gun to get her teenage son out of bed for church.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

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but what should be the hated is the action... for example someone wouldn't speed when he knows that in this street that is always cop sitting with his speed gun to give ticket for the violators of the law and so on... also when someone gets to the court and if he apologies judge give minimum punishment as he recognized that he is guilty...

The team struggled to balance Carmelo's isolation - heavy offensive attack with Amare's preference to run - and - gun, but with a front court including two All - Stars and a former defensive player of the year (Tyson Chandler) the talent is there to contend with any team in the league.

In the past, I envisioned this team post-Big Three as this running - and - gunning dynamo with Rondo at the point of attack, but the more I see this team flourish in the half court, the more I fall in love with the ball movement and finding the open guy.

From The Press of Atlantic City, March 31, 1984: «A Hammonton businessman, about to be sentenced to a seven - year prison term for embezzlement, pulled a gun from his hip pocket... and killed himself in criminal court here Friday, officials said.

On Tuesday an indictment in U.S. District Court alleged that several of those officers had paid bribes of up to $ 2,500 each to join the police force so they could lawfully carry concealed guns and display police badges.

The lefty duo's final argument: Now that Cuomo has succeeded in leading the nation on gun control, he could do so again on this issue, being the first to act in a significant way to counter the power of big money in politics since the US Supreme Court's January 2010 Citizens United decision.

And it doesn't get more damning for civil society architecture — herding justices of the courts (including the Supreme Court) into detention, with alleged smoking guns, after a sting operation, by the secret police.

The senator's ordeal started after two suspects allegedly fingered him as giving them guns and hiring them to be his political thugs ahead of the 2019 general election.There was mild drama yesterday as the Nigeria Police arraigned the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, before a Magistrate Court in Wuse 2, Abuja.

Rep. Claudia Tenney said Remington Arms has assured her that its bankruptcy court filing will not result in job losses at the gun - maker's big factory in the Herkimer County village of Ilion.

This is because the Court in Miller was not claiming that a well regulated militia is required for gun ownership, but rather that it can be used as a guide as to the appropriate manner and intent of individual gun ownership.

Which restrictions on gun ownership have the Supreme Court ruled are a violation of the 2nd Amendment?

The big gun control case that went to the supreme court, Columbia vs Heller in 2008 actually came down on the side of the right with a (not unusual for the supreme court), 5/4 decision along party lines.

Repealing the Second Amendment would be the best way to «weaken the NRA» and help the students who have protested around the country achieve their goal of sweeping gun control, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a NY Times OpEd.

A measure that would hinder the carrying out of a controversial gun control law in New York on the federal level would be challenged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in court, he said on Tuesday.

From banning the sale of possession of bump stocks to allowing courts to prohibit domestic violence abusers or people deemed extreme risks from purchasing guns, Democrat Sean Ryan said the legislation the Assembly passed this week is commonsense, plain and simple.

The emails Cuomo sent yesterday give a very early clue to an argument he would likely make if he indeed decides to take a step onto the national stage: Under my leadership, New York led the nation on touchstone progressive issues, not only becoming the largest state in the country (before the US Supreme Court Prop. 8 decision) to legalize gay marriage, but also the first to act on gun control in the wake of the horrific Newtown massacre.

«Connecticut and Indiana have demonstrated the effectiveness of allowing police to work through the courts to temporarily reduce access to guns when there is strong evidence that someone is at risk of violence, while California and Washington State have taken the critical step of extending their laws to enable family members of someone who may be in crisis to initiate this process.

In the wake of the Florida school massacre, the Democrats will tack on bills that have been stonewalled in committees — including banning bump stocks plus beefing up background checks and a law that allows courts to take away a disturbed person's guns — to unrelated legislation already up for votes.

(Albany, NY)-- New York State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon today joined advocates including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun violence.

Steven Dym, the Westchester real - estate executive who murdered his wife and kid at their mansion before turning the gun on himself, was accused in court papers of being a crooked property manager.

Interestingly enough, because in the US you have the right to appeal to a higher court if you don't like the decision of a lower court, many times states will find very popular gun control bills struck down by a Federal court who tells them that in the pure legal sense, their gun control laws are unconstitutional.

One year after state lawmakers, urged on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed one of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, impacts from the NY SAFE Act continue to reverberate through the state's courts, legislature, law enforcement and shooting sports community.

ALBANY — The state's leading gun rights organization has halted its lawsuit looking to strike down Gov. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law because of the recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Assembly measures would keep firearms out of the hands of people deemed by courts to be a danger to themselves or others, set a 10 - day waiting period for delivery of a gun to a person who hasn't cleared a background check instead of the current three - day period, and prevent people convicted of domestic violence from buying a firearm.

A New York appellate court has ruled in favor of the NYPD's decision NOT to release the addresses of gun permit holders» to the NY Times newspaper.

A trio of gun traffickers was busted Tuesday for smuggling at least 50 firearms from Ohio to The Bronx — writing Facebook messages to each other using sneaker names as code words for the weapons, new court papers state.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman supported the bill Tuesday, saying getting the guns out of the hands of mentally ill people through the court system would be a positive step.

A year after a gun - rights group bombarded the State Police with hundreds of Freedom of Information Law requests to see who was on a mental health - related «no gun» list, they are heading to court after getting what they say are unresponsive answers from the NYSP.

Instead of fighting to repeal the entire set of stricter gun laws, a bi-partisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to chip away at parts of the Safe Act that have proved hard to enforce, been rejected by a federal court, and, in one case, has not been implemented yet.

At 5 p.m., the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City hosts a panel discussion on the role social media plays in gun violence, with New York University's Dr. Shabnam Javdani and others, John Jay College, Moot Court Room, 524 W. 59th St., Manhattan.