{"id":55449,"date":"2014-09-26T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55449"},"modified":"2014-09-26T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:18:45","slug":"no-jail-for-shaneen-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55449","title":{"rendered":"No jail for Shaneen Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shaneen<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

AW1Ed sends us a link to good news<\/a> for Shaneen Allen who was arrested last year for possessing a loaded firearm in New Jersey even though she was licensed in Pennsylvania to carry the gun. When she was pulled over by a New Jersey trooper, she admitted that she was in possession of the gun. Ms. Allen, a single mom, was facing ten years in prison. The state’s Attorney General intervened;<\/p>\n

Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain originally denied Allen pretrial intervention because he said a 2008 directive that expanded the state’s Graves Act did not allow for an exception.<\/p>\n

But the attorney general released a clarification to the state’s county prosecutors Wednesday with respect to out-of-state visitors from states where their gun possession would be legal.<\/p>\n

“In most of these cases, imprisonment is neither necessary nor appropriate to serve the interests of justice and protect public safety,” acting Attorney General John Hoffman wrote.<\/p>\n

“In applying the factors set out in the clarification, I determined that the defendant in this case should be offered the opportunity to be admitted into the Atlantic County PTI Program,” McClain said. “I have communicated that determination to the court and defense counsel.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, she won’t be facing jail time, I guess. My CCW permit has printed right on it that I’m responsible for knowing the laws of any State that I might pass through and Ms. Allen serves as an object lesson to gun owners. New Jersey is not gun friendly at all, so leave them at home, even though you’re your more likely to need a gun there than anywhere else. <\/p>\n

Ms. Allen is also an object lesson for legislators in Congress to get on the stick and pass a Federal law to allow licensed law-abiding citizens to carry wherever they go. If I’m not committing a crime with my gun in my home state, I’m not likely to commit a gun crime ten miles away in Maryland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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