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9th Circuit strikes down felon's firearm conviction
The ruling could wipe out hundreds of firearms-related convictions.
Judge Carlos T. Bea
In a decision that could have major implications for the Second Amendment and criminal law, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Thursday reversed the conviction of a California man with five nonviolent felony convictions for violating a federal statute barring him from possessing a handgun after Inglewood police arrested him for tossing it out of a moving car.
The decision is the second one by a circuit court concluding that the government failed to carry its burden that t...