rapgood
Regular Member
As I'm sure many of your remember, Mack Worley, then of Vancouver WA, was convicted of unlawful display of a weapon (RCW 9.41.270). The conviction was overturned on appeal (that's how most of these go), whereupon the City of Vancouver filed a Motion to Reconsider. The court summarily rejected the City's arguments and denied the motion. While the City can still file an appeal, based upon the denial of the MTR, it isn't likely that they would succeed. The Court accepted my argument that, in order to grant the City's motion, it would have to completely "evicerate the limits on RCW 9.41.270" that the display of a weapon would warrant alarm in a reasonable person, as it had held in State v. Spencer (Worley had his AR 15 simply slung over his shoulder and was not otherwise touching it). Congrats to Mack!