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Is the 2nd Amendment being trounced on here? For those who think Eric Holder is soft on crime and is an advocate of lawlessness, think again:
Scores of N.C. inmates innocent of gun charges yet still imprisoned USATODAY.comArticle posted by USA TODAY said:ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C.–Terrell McCullum did not commit a federal crime by carrying a shotgun and a rifle out of his ex-girlfriend's house.
Terrell McCullum is currently at the Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville, Va.
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Terrell McCullum is currently at the Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville, Va.
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But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. And the fact that everyone — including the U.S.Justice Department— agrees that he is legally innocent might not be enough to set him free.
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The case of Terrell McCullum
A USA TODAY investigation, based on court records and interviews with government officials and attorneys, found more than 60 men who went to prison for violating federal gun possession laws, even though courts have since determined that it was not a federal crime for them to have a gun.
Many of them don't even know they're innocent.
The legal issues underlying their situation are complicated, and are unique to
North Carolina. But the bottom line is that each of them went to prison for breaking a law that makes it a federal crime for convicted felons to possess a gun. The problem is that none of them had criminal records serious enough to make them felons under federal law.
Still, the Justice Department has not attempted to identify the men, has made no effort to notify them, and, in a few cases in which the men have come forward on their own, has argued in court that they should not be released.