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Defense<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-301e3b9a elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"301e3b9a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>A Supreme Court Upholds 14:95(e) Argued by Assistant\u00a0District Attorney Kyle Daly<\/h2><div><p>The Louisiana Supreme Court appeared to be divided Tuesday on whether it should strike down a state law that allows prosecutors to charge someone with a high-grade felony for possessing a firearm at the same time as illegal drugs, regardless of the amount or type of drug.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17862\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.jpg 540w, https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p><p>Assistant District Attorney <strong>Kyle Daly<\/strong> argued that just because a Louisiana law contains the word \u201cfirearm\u201d does not subject the law to strict scrutiny. He likened the case to the government\u2019s regulation of companies\u2019 free speech rights in advertisements.<\/p><p>Justices expressed mixed reaction as they heard oral arguments in the case of Rico Webb, a 23-year-old man who was caught in a car with one marijuana cigar in his backpack and a gun on the floorboard after New Orleans police pulled over his girlfriend for a broken taillight.<\/p><p>The gun was legal and Webb, who has no criminal record, normally would have faced only a fine and probation for misdemeanor possession after the September 2012 arrest. But the combination of the firearm and the marijuana became a felony that, under state law, carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p><p>Webb\u2019s case is the latest in a string of challenges to state gun laws made after a 2012 state constitutional amendment declared the right to bear arms to be fundamental and required that any limitations to that right face a rigorous legal test known as \u201cstrict scrutiny,\u201d the highest level of judicial review. So far, the high court has taken a piecemeal approach in determining which laws survive that test, and it showed no indications of changing course Tuesday.<\/p><p>\u201cA good rule of judicial behavior is courts do not render judgments on that which is not necessary to decide, and it\u2019s not necessary to decide the ultimate meaning of the constitutional amendment,\u201d said Raymond T. Diamond, an LSU law professor and Second Amendment scholar. \u201cI think the court is likely to continue with this sort of case-by-case resolution as opposed to stating something final when all of the issues haven\u2019t been presented yet.\u201d<\/p><p>The legal floodgates were opened in 2012 after voters approved a constitutional amendment saying the right of gun ownership \u201cshall not be infringed\u201d and subjecting it to the same level of judicial scrutiny as free speech and voter equality. The amendment replaced earlier language that stated the right to bear arms \u201cshall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person.\u201d<\/p><p>The amendment, which had been billed by conservatives as a state equivalent to the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, provoked an avalanche of challenges to the state\u2019s major gun-crime laws and prompted at least three judges to declare various criminal statutes to be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court, however, held in reversing a lower court judge earlier this year that voters expect \u201csensible\u201d gun regulations and \u201cdid not ratify this constitutional amendment in a vacuum.\u201d<\/p><p>The Assistant District Attorney <strong>Kyle Daly<\/strong> argued the statute passes the \u201cstrict scrutiny\u201d test because it does not say all felonies bar possession of firearms; instead, they said, it includes a specific list that the Legislature decided made a person more inclined to commit violence. Even our most cherished rights, such as freedom of speech, can be reasonably limited, they said.<\/p><p>The law pushed the Louisiana Supreme Court to become the first in America to analyze criminal gun statutes using a \u201cstrict scrutiny\u201d test, which presumes every person has the right to be armed.<\/p><p id=\"zd_newid_26817\">The \u201cstrict scrutiny\u201d standard requires the state to show that a statute limiting gun ownership serves a compelling government interest and is so narrowly defined that there is no less restrictive way of achieving that interest.<\/p><p>New Orleans public defender Colin Reingold argued Tuesday that the statute Webb is charged under should be declared unconstitutional because it is too broad and arbitrarily criminalizes carrying a firearm with any controlled dangerous substance. He claimed the state hasn\u2019t proved a single marijuana blunt makes Webb more dangerous while armed than anyone else, and he criticized the statute for not discriminating between someone carrying several kilograms of a drug like heroin and someone caught carrying a few prescription pills for personal use.<\/p><p>\u201cWithout some tailoring, the statute can\u2019t survive,\u201d he said, adding that lawmakers need to go back to the drawing board. \u201cThe state hasn\u2019t shown this court that someone with a single joint is likely to be a violent offender.\u201d<\/p><p>Prosecutors, however, urged the high court not to gamble with public safety and said they had met their burden of proving the law\u2019s purpose.<\/p><p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re getting at with this statute is that violence comes from the drug trade,\u201d said Assistant District Attorney <strong>Kyle Daly<\/strong>, whose boss, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, was a vocal opponent of the proposed amendment and warned it could have unintended consequences.<\/p><p>Chief Justice Bernette Johnson expressed deep skepticism toward the law and noted that Webb would not be in this kind of trouble in Washington or Colorado, states that recently legalized marijuana possession.<\/p><p>But Justice Jeanette Theriot Knoll, a former prosecutor, stressed the importance of preserving public safety and the danger that drugs and firearms pose together.<\/p><p>\u201cThese folks that use drugs and are drinking, abusing alcohol, commit violent offenses,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/div><div>Reported by the Advocate New Orleans.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home December 28, 2016 admin Criminal Defense A Supreme Court Upholds 14:95(e) Argued by Assistant\u00a0District Attorney Kyle Daly The Louisiana Supreme Court appeared to be divided Tuesday on whether it should strike down a state law that allows prosecutors to charge someone with a high-grade felony for possessing a firearm at the same time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17865,"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/17865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}