CrimLaw

You know, articles like this drive me nuts. It tells me enough to get me hooked: a client is suing his former attorney because he found the law that freed him instead of the attorney. However, it never, ever gets to the meat of the matter.

Federal authorities argued that Benu was sentenced in 1991 to more than a year in jail for cocaine possession in Maryland, precluding him from possessing firearms. He had been detained earlier in 2002 on charges of taking AK-47 ammunition across state lines, buying a 9 mm pistol and semiautomatic rifle, and taking a pistol across state lines.

Benu pleaded no contest to the charges in April 2002, but reserved the right to argue whether his gun and ammunition purchases were really illegal.

U.S. District Judge Norman Moon denied Anderson's and Friedman's arguments about whether Benu was allowed to possess a firearm.

Then Benu researched the issue and discovered that the Maryland gun law in question was different at the time of his conviction. Moon had the attorneys submit written arguments, then dismissed the case.

That's as substantive as the story gets. Subsequent Google and Google News searches turned up nothing. For goodness sake if you are going to get me hooked like that let me know what actually happened. These would seem like federal Exile charges but they are effected by a Maryland law? How? Why? AAaarrrrggggg!!!!!!!!!


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