Penny Dean and Your Rights

The <a href="http://patriotpost.us/posts/35649">Patriot Post</a> reports that "New Jersey’s lengthy process to get a handgun could have contributed to the death of a Berlin Township hairdresser. Carol Browne was found in her driveway last week, dead of multiple stab wounds. She had placed a restraining order on her former boyfriend, Michael Eitel, who was indicted for aggravated assault with bodily injury in 2006, convicted of a weapons offense in 2008 and was sentenced to five years.

A barrage of police gunfire, 19 rounds in all, struck four mobile homes, two cars and a tree — everything it seemed, except the intended target: a fellow officer on the ground screaming, "I'm a cop!"

The last entry in a case of mistaken identity and misplaced firepower was issued in an Internal Affairs report this week, with the officer who was fired upon being reprimanded.

U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch of Denver has ordered the plaintiffs and lawyers who sued Sportsman’s Guide and Lucky Gunner LLC for selling supplies to alleged Aurora movie-theater shooter James Holmes, to pay the companies’ legal fees in the family’s unsuccessful civil suit against the firearms firms. Click <a href="http://nssf.org/share/PDF/Order_of_Dismissal_Phillips_v_Lucky_Gunner.pdf... to download</a> a copy of the suit.

The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it would stop your breath: “The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.”

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that the Constitution forbids police from holding a suspect without probable cause, even for fewer than 10 extra minutes.

Writing on behalf of the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared that the constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure prevent police from extending an otherwise completed traffic stop to allow for a drug-sniffing dog to arrive.

<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/bb79dacb77291963fca57b185cfbad62d93fff50... align="right" width="150"> We're hearing for the first time the 911 recording of the moments when a west Phoenix woman, huddled in her bathroom, confronted and shot a man charged with breaking into her home.

<img src="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/slagered... align="right" width="240">On Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Thomas Slager was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of Walter Scott. Charges against South Carolina police officers for shooting someone are extremely rare.

Please download and enjoy parts one and two from The Armed Citizens Network publication, featuring "The Stuart Urie Case: When Neighbors Lie". This story features our own Penny Dean, starting in 2007.

<a href="http://www.pennydean.org/sites/default/files/Armed%20Citizens'%20Network... Citizens' Network urie first.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.pennydean.org/sites/default/files/Armed%20Citizens'%20Network... Citizens' Network urie second .pdf</a>

Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed evidence that may have cleared Morton, including statements from the crime's only eyewitness that Morton wasn't the culprit. Anderson sat on this evidence, and then watched Morton get convicted. While Morton remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson's career flourished, and he eventually became a judge.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a specification in the law that provides stiffer penalties for people who use a gun in commission of a crime cannot be applied to a police officer convicted of wrongdoing while performing his duty.

In a split decision, the court held that Ohio’s firearms specification was intended to deter criminals from using firearms while committing an offense and not to deter police officers from carrying a firearm while on duty.