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9th Circuit reverses felony firearm conviction
The ruling could wipe out hundreds of firearms-related convictions.
Senior 9th Circuit Judge Carlos Bea wrote the opinion that reversed a felony-in-possession charge
In a decision that could have major implications for the Second Amendment and criminal law, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel 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.
9th Circuit Judge Carlos T. Bea, an appointee of President George W. Bush, ruled that two Supreme Court decisions - including ...