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Criminal

Jun. 29, 2009

UNDER the GUN

Kamala D. Harris explains the impact of District of Columbia v. Heller on California penal statutes.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Kamala D. Harris

It has been a little over one year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 (2008), its first major Second Amendment case in nearly 70 years. Interested groups, including district attorneys, police chiefs, public health experts, law professors and elected officials, filed some 20 amicus briefs in Heller, urging the court to craft a holding that left intact a...

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