Bob
12-30-2014, 03:14 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/david-gregory-dc-gun-law-magazine-meet-the-press-164519689.html
A federal judge has ordered (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2014/12/30/judge-orders-cops-release-arrest-affadavit-david-gregory) the District of Columbia to release the affidavit (http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/12/legal-insurrection-wins-foia-suit-over-david-gregory-gun-law-non-prosecution/) stemming from the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation of David Gregory after the "Meet the Press" host displayed a high-capacity ammunition magazine on the air while taping the program in NBC's Washington, D.C., studio in 2012.
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Gregory displayed the high-capacity magazine on the Dec. 23, 2012, broadcast (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50283245/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/#.VKLIMUCzAt) during an interview with National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people, including 20 children, were killed.
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While the display "meets the definition" of the criminal statute, Nathanwrote in a letter to the network's lawyers (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/554579/david-gregory-letter.pdf), Gregory's prosecution "would not promote public safety in the District of Columbia nor serve the best interests of the people of the District to whom this office owes its trust."
"That’s not how the average person is treated in D.C., where the technicalities of the gun laws are enforced with obsessive prosecutorial vigor," Jacobson wrote. "And that’s the point. We never wanted David Gregory prosecuted for violating the ridiculous gun law provision, we wanted public officials to be held accountable for the unequal application of the law."
A federal judge has ordered (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2014/12/30/judge-orders-cops-release-arrest-affadavit-david-gregory) the District of Columbia to release the affidavit (http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/12/legal-insurrection-wins-foia-suit-over-david-gregory-gun-law-non-prosecution/) stemming from the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation of David Gregory after the "Meet the Press" host displayed a high-capacity ammunition magazine on the air while taping the program in NBC's Washington, D.C., studio in 2012.
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Gregory displayed the high-capacity magazine on the Dec. 23, 2012, broadcast (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50283245/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/#.VKLIMUCzAt) during an interview with National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people, including 20 children, were killed.
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While the display "meets the definition" of the criminal statute, Nathanwrote in a letter to the network's lawyers (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/554579/david-gregory-letter.pdf), Gregory's prosecution "would not promote public safety in the District of Columbia nor serve the best interests of the people of the District to whom this office owes its trust."
"That’s not how the average person is treated in D.C., where the technicalities of the gun laws are enforced with obsessive prosecutorial vigor," Jacobson wrote. "And that’s the point. We never wanted David Gregory prosecuted for violating the ridiculous gun law provision, we wanted public officials to be held accountable for the unequal application of the law."