Court Opinion

ID: 9725134
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:31:50.531493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:11.059837
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KAUS, P. J.
I concur. The uncontradicted evidence is that the gun could be fired, albeit in “some esoteric manner,” as the trial court put it. We are not bound by the trial court’s conclusion that this made the gun inoperable. To be sure, the trial court’s expressed belief that on November 3, 1977, “Mr. Jackson could not have fired the weapon,” is puzzling. My only explanation in the light of the clear evidence is that the court felt that Jackson could not have fired the weapon because he did not know how to. That, of course, is immaterial.
Appellant’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied July 5, 1979.