Poets and lawyers both love language and while one uses language to create vivid imagery the other twists it to prove a point. I’ve seen this story and thought I might share it with you about the language manipulations of a defense attorney in NE. The defense attorney for the charged stated the gun the police found was inadmissible as evidence. The American-made revolver was manufactured between 1880 and 1941 and federal code states that the weapon is not a firearm unless it was manufactured after 1896. The said revolver had no marking when it was actually manufactured. It looks like a revolver, disassembles like a revolver but legally it wasn’t a revolver. Look at the image in this post. That’s the alleged revolver. So the prosecutor proved something else. There were two rounds of live ammunition in the revolver when the police seized it, so they prosecuted a felony of a different kind: possession of ammunition. The defendant should get 15 years for the ammo charge and other sundry offenses.
