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OR: Portland 'Cop Watcher' Pleads Guilty to Firearms Charge
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A so-called "cop watcher" who angered Portland police and prosecutors by showing up at their homes has pleaded guilty in federal court to using a firearms despite a felony record. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 36-year-old Christopher Ryan Ponte pleaded guilty Friday, admitting that on Jan. 28 he joined co-workers at a campsite in Estacada and held and fired three guns that belonged to others.
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mickey
(12/18/2017)
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Strategic Prosecution Against Public Participation?
Or, in other words, they didn't like his lawful activities, so they found something unlawful but pointless to persecute him for. |
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As an individual, I believe, very strongly, that handguns should be banned and that there should be stringent, effective control of other firearms. However, as a judge, I know full well that the question of whether handguns can be sold is a political one, not an issue of products liability law, and that this is a matter for the legislatures, not the courts. The unconventional theories advanced in this case (and others) are totally without merit, a misuse of products liability laws. — Judge Buchmeyer, Patterson v. Gesellschaft, 1206 F.Supp. 1206, 1216 (N.D. Tex. 1985) |
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