Switchblade Law News Today

This case is highly -- this is case is a problem because the statewide law, that is the spring- -- the switchblade law, is -- was not violated. thats what they charge these police officers with. they dont talk about the city code provision that the charging officers charge mr. gray with. so its really a very inconsistent explanation by the state. state does not allege when they charge these officers the right thing. >> now, does the issue of whether or not -- how do they even know he had a knife...

With incorrect arrests made on the belief someone had a switchblade or illegal knife. in those cases, the question is not ultimately whether or not the knife was legal or not. its whether or not the facts available to that officer, whether or not he reasonably could have concluded based on his observations that knife violated the applicable switchblade law. >> theyll argue they saw the knife in his waist band and pursued him, but made the discovery, saw the knife, they called it a switchblade ev...