SJC rules against woman in Ashland stun gun case
BOSTON – What started as a call to the Ashland Police for a possible shoplifting case may end up in the hands of the highest court in the country.On Monday, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the state’s ban on the possession of stun guns does not violate the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That ruling upheld a conviction in which a woman was arrested …
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Debate About Police Use-Of-Force, Race Leads To Demands For Change
Jose Angel Maldonado was in an East Hartford lockup last April when he was hit by a police stun gun and died. A handcuffed Efrain Carrion had crawled naked into a bramble patch in May 2010 and was struck an estimated 34 times by Middletown police stun guns before he died. Gonzalo Guizan was…
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