Supreme Court Takes Firearms Possession Case

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the case of a man who successfully challenged firearms possession charges that were linked to alleged domestic violence. The federal government had asked the justices to step into the case. In 1994, Randy Edward Hayes pleaded guilty in Marion County, W.Va., to the minor crime of battery following an incident in which his wife was the victim. In 2004, police summoned to Hayes's home in response to a domestic violence 911 call found a Winchester rifle belonging to Hayes. They later discovered that he had possessed at least four other rifles following the 1994 case. Hayes was indicted on federal charges of possessing firearms following conviction of misdemeanor domestic violence, a reference to the 1994 case in West Virginia. Read more...

Posted by Editor at March 25, 2008 09:10 AM