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RI: ACLU files lawsuit against North Smithfield police over seizure of guns
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The ACLU today filed a lawsuit in federal district court on behalf of a North Smithfield resident, seeking the return of weapons that were seized from him over six years ago by the local police department and which the department still refuses to return to him.
The lawsuit, filed by RI ACLU volunteer attorney Thomas W. Lyons on behalf of Jason Richer, argues that the North Smithfield Police Department violated his right to due process and his right to keep and bear arms by retaining his property without just cause. The ACLU successfully filed a similar lawsuit against the Cranston Police Department three years ago.
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"Police departments must learn that the Constitution simply does not allow them to arbitrarily keep the property of innocent residents.”
There is only one way to do that: Deny qualified immunity and make officials who institute this unconstitutional policy criminally and civilly liable, PERSONALLY, immediately subsequent to a "show cause" hearing, and issue permanent injunctive relief binding the department in all cases as well. |
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| The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power." [Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)] |
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