I was on the jury in that NFA case. Was better than a 'made for TV' movie.
Oh? Do tell.
I was on the jury in that NFA case. Was better than a 'made for TV' movie.
Details plz?
Oh? Do tell.
Why the hell did he have a machine gun in his office? He should have it in the trunk of his car. That's were I keep all of mine. In violin cases.
I was on the jury in that NFA case. Was better than a 'made for TV' movie.
I've read the transcript and tend to agree with you.
Edit: You left out the part of his witness that utterly destroyed the ATFs database credibility for that time period. Also you probably weren't privy to all the blatant stonewalling by the US Attorney and possibly the fact that they dropped a whole bunch of other charges. Or was all that in a subsequent trial? I forget.
We could tell there was a bunch of 'stuff' we weren't let in on... couldn't tell if it was relevant or what it was all about but definitely had the feeling there were things we didn't know. At the end of the day, I just looked at the charges wrt to the Sten MKII and viewed it the way I described above. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lot more to the story than what we got but the case as presented didn't prove to me he had done anything wrong and the prosecution's case seemed like a bunch of smoke and mirrors. They spent way too much time on issues that didn't make sense or weren't relevant in the end. Tried to make little things look more incriminating than they were. The dies and ATF records for example.
There were a handful of charges but there was the illegal possession charge and then the rest were all related to what happened during the inspection(s).
He definitely didn't have it together, some of the guns were at his office, some were at his home, he wouldn't let them in one of the rooms at his office (said his co-worker was having a meeting in there and couldn't be interrupted) so they had to come back later in the afternoon, one of his silencers was "on loan" to an Edmond police officer (should have been on site), he couldn't find his log (found it later behind his safe), etc...
But those weren't the charges so...
Wow, that would make a good movie.
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