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TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 10:05 pm
by philip964
https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter ... rQ0v-58nQ/
Gun tossed out car window at traffic stop.
Poor Houston police.
Can’t get DA to accept gun charge, so settle with littering.
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 11:03 pm
by O.F.Fascist
Well all gun laws are infringements so this seems reasonable. I wish the DA would be consistent and throw out any gun charges but somehow I'm skeptical.
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 3:01 am
by AJSully421
Liberalism... don’t it just kill ya!
Kinda like the liberal DA of Dallas County making public statements about minor crimes no longer being prosecuted. It is like Broken Windows Theory doesn’t exist, and has not been proven time and time again.
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 5:45 am
by Jusme
No wonder Houston has so many problems. I have never heard, of having to contact the DA office before making an arrest. It completely ties the hands of the police. It also, strips them of their stated powers, and duties as Texas LEO. If the DA doesn't want to file charges, fine, but let that process take place after an arrest.
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 7:44 am
by C-dub
And I thought DPD had it bad.
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 8:23 am
by OneGun
Meanwhile, DA Ogg files criminal charges against companies that experienced catastrophes caused by mother nature. DA Ogg filed criminal charges against Arkema because their facility was not prepared for a 60 inch rain event caused by Hurricane Harvey.
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/article ... -aftermath
Meanwhile, the Chemical Safety Board acknowledged there is limited standards for response plans to Harvey-type flooding. From the CSB report.
Industry safety guidance for companies on how to address flood hazards was available from several
different sources, including the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and FEMA. This
guidance, however, is either too generic or does not require sufficiently conservative precautions to
have helped Arkema prevent this incident.
Our DA needs to be more of a professional prosecutor and less of a politician.
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 5:33 pm
by O.F.Fascist
Looks like another news article on this came out.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/...e ... affic-stop
DA's office changed their mind and are now charging the driver with a Class A misdemeanor for having the gun in "plain view."
Re: TX: Couple charged with littering with a gun as DA would not accept minor in possession
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 5:38 pm
by Jusme
Sounds like the DA office has a spinning dartboard. When a call comes in from the police they spin it, throw a dart, and whatever it lands on is what they go with. How can they determine, whether to accept charges, with minimal information, provided, by a LEO on the street? I guess, it all depends on where the dart lands, as to whether you will go to jail or not.