RI ban on stun guns and Tasers is overturned by federal judge
U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith rejected arguments that stun guns are capable of being mistaken by children for other harmless items.
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U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith rejected arguments that stun guns are capable of being mistaken by children for other harmless items.
The Providence Journal CRANSTON — Standing before a line of news people, her lawyer behind her and two dozen protesters and supporters behind him, Marie Franco, the mother of the man who died a month ago in Medium Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions, begged for someone “to come forward and tell me what really happened to him.” Holding a photo of her son and saying she had been crying for two days straight, Marie Franco said she was angry and “hurt inside.” He was cremated on her birthday, she said. And two days ago, she got the ashes. “I miss my son,” she said. “Th...