In Missouri, police and prosecutors must prove that a weapon is “readily” capable of lethal use when it is used in the type of crime with which the McCloskeys have been charged.
Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley ordered crime lab staff members to field strip the handgun and found it had been assembled incorrectly. Specifically, the firing pin spring was put in front of the firing pin, which was backward, and made the gun incapable of firing, according to documents obtained by 5 On Your Side.
Firearms experts then put the gun back together in the correct order and test-fired it, finding that it worked, according to the documents. -KSDK5
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According to the report, crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly of the pistol.
The McCloskeys attorney, Joel Schwartz, told KSDK that the St. Louis couple intentionally misplaced the firing pin on the gun, rendering it inoperable. They turned the pistol in to their former attorney Al Watkins following the incident last month.
"It’s disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of...
"It’s disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of...
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A great idea coming from an attorney faced with possible charges. I need to practice field stripping firing pins.
ReplyDeleteIf this whole story weren't so sad from the inception it would be funny. The liberal, anti gun lawyers that used the malfunctioning weapon in a prop court case fighting AGAINST a gun company and here they are using it as a means of protecting themselves. I'd ask if they learned a lesson from this, but their liberals for Pete's sake. They're incapable of learning from their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteThe end game is the destruction of property rights and the landowners' ability to protect themselves.
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