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Default Current cases in process for firearm rights restoring for Misdemeanor DV?

Are there any current cases being heard or working thru the system regarding 2nd Amendment firearm rights restoration for misdemeanor DV?

Last time I checked years ago, it seemed there was a case Enos? I would assume Enos was not successful?

Is there any future traction or possibility to having gun rights restored for an expunged 10+ year old misdemeanor DV plea deal with no run in's with the law?

Did CA recently change to a lifetime ban for new cases? I thought CA only had a 10 year ban for firearm ownership?

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Thank you.

Was I correct to assume that I had placed it in the incorrect forum and that this is the correct forum?
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There are none in the Ninth Circuit right now.
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Ok, thank you for the reply.

Guessing Enos was not successful at all?
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SCOTUS denied cert in 2015 - see http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...&postcount=864
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Yeah, I read somewhere that CA changed the law so that domestic violence convictions after 1/1/2019 result in a lifetime prohibition not a 10 year prohibition. One of the bills that was passed this year IIRC.
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Yeah, I read somewhere that CA changed the law so that domestic violence convictions after 1/1/2019 result in a lifetime prohibition not a 10 year prohibition. One of the bills that was passed this year IIRC.
Does that even matter? They're already prohibited for life at the Federal level.
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Thanks for the info and replies.

So with nothing currently in process and recent changes in alignment of CA law to fed law, should one assume that any possibility of gun rights restoration is DOA?
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Thanks for the info and replies.

So with nothing currently in process and recent changes in alignment of CA law to fed law, should one assume that any possibility of gun rights restoration is DOA?
No actually due to CA's recent change in law there is now a viable claim

Read this case http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...5/14-16514.pdf
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No actually due to CA's recent change in law there is now a viable claim

Read this case http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...5/14-16514.pdf
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Did CA recently change to a lifetime ban for new cases? I thought CA only had a 10 year ban for firearm ownership
It's not California, it is Federal.

Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) pushed an amendment into an appropriations act in 1996 that retroactively created a lifetime firearms prohibition for *any* conviction of DV.
A lot of people (including police officers) became prohibited persons the day this went into effect.

It has been challenged at least 6 times, most have been rejected or denied cert.
One case was overturned in 1999, but reversed on appeal in 2001, but this case did not involve a misdemeanor conviction.

California has its own list of 10-year (and lifetime) prohibitions that are not completely consistent with Federal law. In some cases, Federal law is more restrictive, in most cases, Federal law is silent... in which case the California prohibition does not apply outside of California.
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Does that even matter? They're already prohibited for life at the Federal level.
But it means that even if a challenge against Lautenberg is accepted and ruled favorably by SCOTUS, a separate challenge would be needed against California law, meaning it would need to go through the 9th.
California likely passed this in anticipation of a future favorable ruling from a SCOTUS comprised of 6 Bush/Trump appointments.
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Does this have to do with none of are actually available in CA?
Correct. The Ninth Circuit is open to a challenge to Lautenburg and CA state law because there is currently no way to get a conviction set aside or expunged
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But it means that even if a challenge against Lautenberg is accepted and ruled favorably by SCOTUS, a separate challenge would be needed against California law, meaning it would need to go through the 9th.
California likely passed this in anticipation of a future favorable ruling from a SCOTUS comprised of 6 Bush/Trump appointments.
You could just challenge both in one case.
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Correct. The Ninth Circuit is open to a challenge to Lautenburg and CA state law because there is currently no way to get a conviction set aside or expunged
So, what would that need to look like, money-wise and plaintiff-wise?
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So, what would that need to look like, money-wise and plaintiff-wise?
You'd want one or more people with a single county of misdemeanor DV. from years in the past and no convictions afterwards.

If you were paying a private lawyer to do it I'd suspect around 40-50k to take it all the way up to the Ninth Circuit.

You'd get your money back if you won.
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You'd want one or more people with a single county of misdemeanor DV. from years in the past and no convictions afterwards.
And preferably a conviction that stemmed from "BS" accusations from a now-ex-spouse that was plea bargained down to misdo on advice from counsel that it was not worth the cost and risk of taking before a jury, and would have no impact on future firearms ownership or state licensing status.
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You'd want one or more people with a single county of misdemeanor DV. from years in the past and no convictions afterwards.

If you were paying a private lawyer to do it I'd suspect around 40-50k to take it all the way up to the Ninth Circuit.

You'd get your money back if you won.
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And preferably a conviction that stemmed from "BS" accusations from a now-ex-spouse that was plea bargained down to misdo on advice from counsel that it was not worth the cost and risk of taking before a jury, and would have no impact on future firearms ownership or state licensing status.
I know of someone who plead to a misdemeanor battery when he was about 19. He was in the Army Reserve at the time. His lawyer did a horrible job and he didn't know about the Federal Lautenberg ban at the time and she never mentioned that. We were throwing people out of the reserves because of this law but he made it through his first 6 year enlistment with an honorable discharge and decorations.

His lawyer actually told him, in a letter dated after she entered his plea of no contest, that it "occurred to her" that he would be banned for 10 years under California law and he still has that letter.

He never went to court as the lawyer went for him. The TAHL form only lists a possibility of lost gun rights on one side and he just signed the back because he was a dumb kid who had never ben in trouble and he just spent his life savings on a lawyer he thought had his best interests in mind.

He is now a early 40 something successful manager of a large team at work and is thinking of challenging this. He has never had any kind of negative law enforcement contact before or after.
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Interesting reading. Looking forward to seeing what develops, as I fit the bill, single M-DV from over a decade ago with no other run ins with the law of any kind, but don't have a spare 40-50k to drop on this. Also fit the description of what Cokebottle laid out.

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But it means that even if a challenge against Lautenberg is accepted and ruled favorably by SCOTUS, a separate challenge would be needed against California law, meaning it would need to go through the 9th.
California likely passed this in anticipation of a future favorable ruling from a SCOTUS comprised of 6 Bush/Trump appointments.
Wouldn't a challenge to CA law only be needed if the conviction was for PC 273.5, and the conviction occurred after January 1, 2019?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f...ctionNum=29805.

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(b) Any person who is convicted, on or after January 1, 2019, of a misdemeanor violation of Section 273.5, and who subsequently owns, purchases, receives, or has in possession or under custody or control, any firearm is guilty of a public offense, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
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Interesting reading. Looking forward to seeing what develops, as I fit the bill, single M-DV from over a decade ago with no other run ins with the law of any kind, but don't have a spare 40-50k to drop on this. Also fit the description of what Cokebottle laid out.
I know someone who has the money and is in this situation. Who should he contact?
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I was cleaning out my inbox and ran across a notification email for this thread, which appears to have gotten buried to page 3 now, how time flies.

Does the NYSRPA v. Bruen decision give any help to these types of cases? How about the spreadsheets created for the various cases that Benitez is currently hearing? I'm not seeing a whole lot of, if any, history to support such a law.
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I was cleaning out my inbox and ran across a notification email for this thread, which appears to have gotten buried to page 3 now, how time flies.

Does the NYSRPA v. Bruen decision give any help to these types of cases? How about the spreadsheets created for the various cases that Benitez is currently hearing? I'm not seeing a whole lot of, if any, history to support such a law.
Apparently Bruen does. See this thread about a 5th Circuit case - http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s....php?t=1843110
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Apparently Bruen does. See this thread about a 5th Circuit case - http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s....php?t=1843110
Thank you Librarian, I saw that elsewhere shortly after my post here. Interesting timing to say the least.
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