Originally posted by SportsFan:
No, I was just sharing my experience. I am actually a very sad human being who is afraid to go outside.
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Originally posted by SportsFan:
Originally posted by midrdan:
Good insight and I hope that the people that are in charge of prosecuting Aldon have the same empathy - everybody deserves a second chance and an opportunity to change. But assault rifles are a pretty hot topic right now, this is a high profile case, and the District Attorney is a political office. And for every 49ers fan that hopes Aldon Smith gets out of this without having to waste the prime of his career in jail, there is a parent who sends their kids to school everyday worried about gun violence. I don't believe Aldon Smith is a danger to anybody but himself but the case is a bit bigger than him, unfortunately.
Originally posted by real9erfan:
I'm an immigration attorney, but I get a lot of clients that have criminal issues, which affect their immigration cases. In the majority of cases, the records show that they were initially charged with a felony but later pled down to a misdemeanor. Now for the purposes of immigration law, it doesn't matter for the most part whether a crime is considered a felony or misdemeanor under state law, it could still carry consequences in immigration; and this is always an issue we have with public defenders and criminal defense attorneys who know nothing about immigration law. But they always get their clients to plead to misdemeanors and of the hundreds of cases I've seen, I think one actually had gone to trial.
Originally posted by jreff22:I'm curious to know how he transported them back and what he was thinking purchasing them. I give it a decent chance that whoever sold him the guns warned him. His CA drivers license, I would imagine would have the sales person say something about legality. You don't want your customer arrested or coming back at you pissed because you didn't give them all the info.
Originally posted by facestabber:
Originally posted by jreff22:
I'm curious to know how he transported them back and what he was thinking purchasing them. I give it a decent chance that whoever sold him the guns warned him. His CA drivers license, I would imagine would have the sales person say something about legality. You don't want your customer arrested or coming back at you pissed because you didn't give them all the info.
Where is Aldon from originally? Does he have a residence outside of California? Do we know for a fact his license is issued by California and not another state?
Originally posted by boast:
Originally posted by jreff22:
I'm curious to know how he transported them back and what he was thinking purchasing them. I give it a decent chance that whoever sold him the guns warned him. His CA drivers license, I would imagine would have the sales person say something about legality. You don't want your customer arrested or coming back at you pissed because you didn't give them all the info.
that depends on whether or not the AZ gun store employee knows CA gun laws. i would guess the employee would not.
Originally posted by Nuns:
Originally posted by boast:
Originally posted by jreff22:
I'm curious to know how he transported them back and what he was thinking purchasing them. I give it a decent chance that whoever sold him the guns warned him. His CA drivers license, I would imagine would have the sales person say something about legality. You don't want your customer arrested or coming back at you pissed because you didn't give them all the info.
that depends on whether or not the AZ gun store employee knows CA gun laws. i would guess the employee would not.
You have to have an address in the state you're buying a gun in order to purchase it. I don't think you run into Nevada with a CA drivers license and buy a weapon.
Originally posted by Marvin49:
Originally posted by Wrathman:
Do all these charges mean Aldon is never coming back? Felonies are serious.
No.
It means everyone is going apesh*t over nothing. LOL.
Being charged with a felony and actually getting convicted of one are very, very different things. This will never see a court room and will be plead down.
Aldon will probably be back after the bye and face a suspension at the beginning of next season.
If he does indeed learn something from this experience this will all amount to little more than a blip on the radar. Thats the only big if here.
He won't spend a day in prison. Bet on it.
Originally posted by b9er37:
Read an article today speculating the DA is using the weapons charge to get Aldon to plea on the DUI. Can't find it now but it was interesting the way thing line up. The author wrote about AZ gun laws vs CA gun laws and how the DA would have to prove Aldon knowingly broke the CA law beyond a doubt. Hope the writer was correct.
Originally posted by IdahoNiner:
Originally posted by b9er37:
Read an article today speculating the DA is using the weapons charge to get Aldon to plea on the DUI. Can't find it now but it was interesting the way thing line up. The author wrote about AZ gun laws vs CA gun laws and how the DA would have to prove Aldon knowingly broke the CA law beyond a doubt. Hope the writer was correct.
Doubtful. They have been working on bringing the charges for awhile now. Once again, Aldon didnt have to KNOWINGLY do anything. Ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
The thing i wonder is how ticky tacky the assault weapons charges are. Did he have any CA compliant parts added when he brought it into CA? etc. If he can proe an attempt to make it CA compliant, then maybe he could have a slight arguement, but if he just brought an ar-15 from AZ to CA and stuck it in his closet as is, than he likely has no leg to stand on.
Another thing is CA is very liberal on what it considers an "assault rifle". I would be interested in finding out exactly what said rifle was.
Originally posted by LoneWolf:Not really.
Originally posted by IdahoNiner:
Originally posted by b9er37:
Read an article today speculating the DA is using the weapons charge to get Aldon to plea on the DUI. Can't find it now but it was interesting the way thing line up. The author wrote about AZ gun laws vs CA gun laws and how the DA would have to prove Aldon knowingly broke the CA law beyond a doubt. Hope the writer was correct.
Doubtful. They have been working on bringing the charges for awhile now. Once again, Aldon didnt have to KNOWINGLY do anything. Ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
The thing i wonder is how ticky tacky the assault weapons charges are. Did he have any CA compliant parts added when he brought it into CA? etc. If he can proe an attempt to make it CA compliant, then maybe he could have a slight arguement, but if he just brought an ar-15 from AZ to CA and stuck it in his closet as is, than he likely has no leg to stand on.
Another thing is CA is very liberal on what it considers an "assault rifle". I would be interested in finding out exactly what said rifle was.