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Noble Not Guilty Of Disrupting Public Gathering
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BEAVER (KDKA) ― Hours after asking a judge to send them home because they were "frazzled," a Beaver County jury found John Noble not guilty of disrupting a public gathering when he brought a gun to a campaign rally for President Barack Obama.
The judge also found Noble not guilty of disorderly conduct.
Noble was accused of causing a disturbance by bringing a gun to the rally in Beaver County last year.
Though he had proper permits to carry the firearm, a trooper arrested him for disrupting a public gathering.
During the trial, Noble testified that he wanted to educate people about the right to carry firearms after Obama characterized Pennsylvanians as clinging to guns and religion.
After less than five hours of deliberations yesterday, the judge sent jurors home last night without a verdict.
The judge said it was the first time that a jury asked to go home because they were "frazzled."
Deliberations resumed this morning; andabout two hours later, the jury reached theirdecision.
Had he been convicted of thethird-degree misdemeanor, Noble could have faced as much as one year in jail and fines of up to$2,500.