Man Arrested For Open Carry In North Carolina: An Update
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 10 months ago
As an update to my article on the arrest of Danny Gray Lambeth for open carry of a rifle, I do not know Mr. Lambeth and have no way of contacting him. I would like to know more about the story, but cannot afford the time to travel and sit through a court hearing, especially given that hearings can be postponed on the spot multiple times depending upon what the lawyers and judge want to do. I have also searched new reports every day since the original report, only to find no updates.
But I did forward a complaint to the office of the North Carolina Attorney General, and heard back the next day. Basically, I stipulated to the caller (himself a former prosecuting attorney) that I didn’t know all of the facts of the case, and he stipulated to me (after I pressed the point) that arrest for open carry in the county of Davidson while leaving me alone in Mecklenburg County to open carry is capricious and arbitrary, unless there are other facts of the case such as brandishing or threatening (which are both illegal anyway).
And I insist that readers and the legal system stipulate as follows: arrest in one county while allowing open carry in another allows LEOs capricious and arbitrary choices, and by the very definition this isn’t justice.
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On January 8, 2015 at 12:43 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
Arbitrary and capricious seems to be SOP for our feckless leaders…