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I guarantee you it is DEFINATELY worth it to Charley to appeal this matter. He was arrested and now has a misdemeanor conviction for exercising his constitutional rights (more than one). If he allows this officer to get by with this, then the officer will continue to deprive people of their rights on a daily basis. This was a MAJOR deprivation in my eyes, and many others I am sure. Had this ENCOUNTER been a legal one, the officer would have noticed his firearm, asked for his DL and sent him on his way. As we know, this is NOT what happened. Everything this officer did was either illegal or unconstitutional, and I could not allow him to get away with it. I get a sense of Charley's personality from this forum, and I can tell that he does NOT want this officer to get away with what he did either.
When you are fighting for your rights and what is RIGHT, then there can be no price too high. And, Charley now has a criminal record, which is BOGUS!