Dear Moderators:

This thread is currently going on in "Martial Arts and the Law" as well as "Dojo Roundtable" and "Self Defense Realities." Is there a way to consolidate them on one place?

Sincerely,
Norm Abrahamson

Dear Moderators:

This thread is currently going on in "Martial Arts and the Law" as well as "Dojo Roundtable" and "Self Defense Realities." Is there a way to consolidate them on one place?

Sincerely,
Norm Abrahamson

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken. The second amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms, regardless of membership in a militia. I will now take my bow for my prediction in March. The opinions (majority and dissent) are about 157 pages long, so I haven't had a chance to read them yet. To ...

Congratulations to Sensei Michael Murphy, who celebrated his 20th year as Sensei of Uechi Ryu America Karate School in Randolph. Last night was celebrated by visits from scores of current and former students who came up to the school to reminisce, eat pizza, and look through old photo albums. The ea...

Dear Folks: I would like to pass along my condolences to all of you American sports fans who have the misfortune of living outside of New England. During this past year the Red Sox won the World Series; the Celtics won the NBA championship; and the Patriots played (poorly) in the Super Bowl. Is it d...

I would like to congratulate 3 black belt candidates from our dojo who were all promoted this past Saturday. Al Frangipane (Godan), Rob Parsons (Yondan) and Allison Cabral (Shodan) all had outstanding tests. The testing board included Uechi luminaries Jay Salhanick, Mike Aceto, Steve DiOrio, Fedele ...

Panther:

The attorneys at issue did not imprison anybody. That is more than a minor point.

Sincerely,
Norm Abrahamson

Dear CXT: It’s true that deals are cut all the time, but not for cases that are already closed. As far the District Attorney’s Office was concerned, Alton Logan’s murder case was already solved and the perpetrator in prison. There was no motivation for the authorities to trade information so a priso...

CXT: You'll get no argument from me that "justice" is not always the end result in any court case, civil or criminal. The system put in place is intended to allow justice to prevail more often than not. You make some fine points, but on one, I will disagree. You stated that because their c...

Sensei Mattson: The attorneys involved DID do the moral thing. Their moral, as well as legal obligation, was to protect their client and keep his confidence. The easy, and immoral, thing to do would have been to betray that confidence. I suppose that the attorneys could have acted as "unnamed i...

Dear Folks, Not surprisingly, I have a different take on this situation than Aaahmed46. Aaahmed46 wrote: "I understand their oath is to their client and all, but how could they sleep at night knowing some poor sucker was rotting away in prison for a crime he didn't commit? They can justify it a...

I read the transcript of the oral argument in the Heller case and it was quite interesting. Eight of the nine Justices asked questions of the attorneys. As usual, Justice Thomas was as noisy as a doorstop. While it is probably foolish to read too much into the ultimate vote of a Justice based on his...

Gene: That’s a good question, but there are in fact other instances where clauses in the Constitution are defined as preambles. In Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, one of the powers of congress is stated as: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors...

John: I checked out the briefs of the Petitioner (Washington, D.C.) and Respondent (Heller), and they're pretty interesting. I don't recall reading appellate briefs that had so much space devoted to giving a historical perspective to the underlying question. For those of you interested in personal r...

Dear Van: After reading your post, I decided to take a quick look at the Massachusetts firearms license statutes codified at Mass. General Laws chapter 140. I don't own firearms and this has not bee part of my practice, but I figured that licensing statutes ought to be fairly simple and straightforw...