Esq.
Sep. 1, 2015
Verbatim
"There ought to be a law against shining a laser pointer at an aircraft. In fact,
there is, and it's ... designed for knuckleheads like him."
-Ninth Circuit Judge Barry G. Silverman, explaining that the defendant violated a
federal statute (18 U.S.C. § 39A) that makes it illegal to knowingly aim the beam
of a laser pointer at an aircraft. (See United States v. Rodriguez, 790 F.3d 951
(9th Cir. 2015).)...
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