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Libertarian(Stanley) gets jail time for gun stunt
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Libertarian gets jail time for gun stunt
By Barry Bortnick The Gazette
DENVER - Rick Stanley, the Libertarian candidate running for U.S. Senate, was sentenced to six months in jail Thursday and fined $629 for carrying a loaded gun during a Second Amendment rally in December.
The jail term will be suspended if Stanley performs 75 hours of community service and does 30 days of home detention before Oct. 31.
Stanley said he won't do either, and plans to appeal what he described as an unconstitutional act by the Denver County Court.
"I did a civil disobedience act of putting a loaded weapon in a holster at a Bill of Rights rally," Stanley said Thursday. "I'll go to jail for six months for a Second Amendment right. How's that for a police state?"
Stanley faces incumbent Republican Sen. Wayne Allard and the Democratic challenger, Tom Strickland, in November.
Stanley does not expect the sentencing to affect his campaign.
"Nothing will happen until appeals are exhausted and that could take years," Stanley said.
http://www.gazette.com/stories/0726loc5.php?section=1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Barry Bortnick The Gazette
DENVER - Rick Stanley, the Libertarian candidate running for U.S. Senate, was sentenced to six months in jail Thursday and fined $629 for carrying a loaded gun during a Second Amendment rally in December.
The jail term will be suspended if Stanley performs 75 hours of community service and does 30 days of home detention before Oct. 31.
Stanley said he won't do either, and plans to appeal what he described as an unconstitutional act by the Denver County Court.
"I did a civil disobedience act of putting a loaded weapon in a holster at a Bill of Rights rally," Stanley said Thursday. "I'll go to jail for six months for a Second Amendment right. How's that for a police state?"
Stanley faces incumbent Republican Sen. Wayne Allard and the Democratic challenger, Tom Strickland, in November.
Stanley does not expect the sentencing to affect his campaign.
"Nothing will happen until appeals are exhausted and that could take years," Stanley said.
http://www.gazette.com/stories/0726loc5.php?section=1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878