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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://x.com/dccrimefacts/status/1797976317448860066[/twitter][/quote]

[url=https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/Champion%20v%20US%2018-CF-1128.pdf]Champion vs. US (2024)[/url]

[url=https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/T.W.%20v.%20United%20States%2C%2019-CF-0849.pdf]T.W. vs US (2023)[/url]

[url=https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/Mayo%20v%20US%2018-CF-1132.pdf]Mayo vs. US (2022)[/url]

[url=https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/Hawkins%20v.%20US%2019-CF-605.pdf]Hawkins vs. US (2021)[/url]

Unlike Baltimore, the DC Court of Appeals has erected an iron curtain of case precedents that prevents most gun possession cases from getting to a guilty verdict in DC. Short of someone waving a gun in the air in plain sight, the DC Court of Appeals have taken away most avenues of probably cause for MPD to initiate a search of an individual under the 4th Amendment. US AG can't get any of the illegal gun possession charges to stick because of this judicial activism.

DC is the only appeals court in the United States with this broad view of the 4th Amendment that hamstrings police and the prosecution.

[b]'We've lost 75%' of search and seizure appellate cases,' DC's top prosecutor says[/b]
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/matthew-graves-us-attorney-4th-amendment-cases-lost/65-93c2162b-41f2-4caf-b37f-30d95c4a4cdf

This is why the DC AG is not prosecuting gun cases. The courts have sent a strong and clear signal that they will not allow the AG to prosecute.[/quote]

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