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Subject: Re: Criminal Records Expunged for St. Louis Gun Couple
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:29:28 -0400
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On 6/18/24 6:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St.
> Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their
> mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.
> 
> Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a request in January to have
> the convictions wiped away. Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order
> Wednesday that the purpose of an expungement is to give people who have
> rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
> reported. City prosecutors and police opposed the expungements.
> 
> Immediately after the judge's ruling, Mark McCloskey demanded that the city
> return the two guns seized as part of his 2021 guilty plea to misdemeanor
> assault. Republican Gov. Mike Parson pardoned the couple weeks after the
> plea.
> 
> "It's time for the city to cough up my guns," he told the Post-Dispatch.
> 
> If it doesn't, he said, he'll file a lawsuit.
> 
> The McCloskeys said they felt threatened by the protesters, who were
> passing their home in June 2020 on their way to demonstrate in front of the
> mayor's house nearby. It was one of hundreds of demonstrations around the
> country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The couple
> also said the group was trespassing on a private street.
> 
> Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and
> Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol.
> 
> https://apnews.com/article/mark-mccloskey-record-expunged-e078710c51815fd00db9ba21b987b5ef
> 

Yeah, so?  A Republican let two more Republicans off the hook.
Does that make them any less guilty of the offense?

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