A New York attorney has vowed to appeal a federal judge's denial of his challenge to his arrest for possession in his home of two "chuka sticks," or "nunchaku." James M. Maloney called the statute that prohibits possession of the weapon "nothing less than draconian." But U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt made short work of the claim that New York's Penal Law violated Maloney's First Amendment right of free speech, his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and his Ninth Amendment right to privacy.
February 01, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A Port Jefferson, N.Y., attorney has vowed to appeal a federal judge’s denial of his challenge to his arrest for possession in his home of two “chuka sticks,” or “nunchaku.”
“A law that punishes a person … for the peaceful possession in his or her home of two sticks connected by a cord is nothing less than draconian, and should embarrass us all,” said the attorney, James M. Maloney.
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