In as a misbegotten prosecution as we have ever seen, the Broward State Attorneys Office (Motto: “New State Attorney, same old crap…”) was handed a well deserved defeat Friday as a jury acquitted former officer Peterson for child abuse charges for his alleged failure to act as a first responder during the tragic Parkland school shooting.
A well deserved NG for a State attorneys office that doesn’t know its ass from its elbow.
You know what they need? A big HUG. Maybe a judge will hug the state attorney trial team.
It’s been done before.
FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
An interesting take on the felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Reeves in the Middle District has found the statute unconstitutional. Run with it.
“It is unsurprising that the government relies on jurisprudence
filled with such methodological flaws. The same errors define
the Supreme Court’s own Second Amendment jurisprudence.”
Judge R is our new favourite Judge for paragraphs like this:
B. Revisiting Originalism
Bruen shows us that originalism is now the Supreme Court’s
dominant mode of constitutional interpretation. This Court is
not so sure it should be.
For one, the originalist case for originalism is lacking. This
Court has yet to see evidence proving “that the original meaning
of Article III of the Constitution included the understanding
that courts should interpret the Constitution based on its
original meanings.” Erwin Chemerinsky, Worse than Nothing:
The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism 82 (2022) [hereinafter
Worse than Nothing]. In other words, it is not clear that
founding‐era Americans collectively agreed that for time immemorial,
their descendants would be bound by the founding
generation’s views on how the Constitution should be read.
There are a lot more gems in this remarkable order. We recommend you lawyers read it (of course you judges have better things to do than read well-reasoned federal orders. Like pinochle.).
Reeves Order by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd