Prosecutor Mason Appeals Judge Corrigan's Ruling That Per Recent Supreme Court Decision Misdemeanor Drug Offenders Can Bear Protective Guns At Home
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason has appealed to the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals asking it to overturn a ruling by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Brian Corrigan that dismissed a felony firearms case against a local entrepreneur. Corrigan said that the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear in a decision issued last year that it is unconstitutional to prosecute people with misdemeanors, including drug convictions, that are not otherwise precluded from bearing arms in their homes for protection as permitted by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And, according to Corrigan, any state law that says otherwise is unconstitutional pursuant to the Second Amendment, and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision at issue. Marinko Tomas, who owns and operates an East Side carpet busin