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Appeals court reviews police report evidence used to suspend firearms license
Summary
A panel considered whether a police report relying on a complainant’s statement — later partially recanted — provided a reliable basis for a licensing authority’s suspension and denial of Nancy Dennis’s license to carry.
In oral argument on an appeal from the denial and suspension of a firearms license, counsel disputed whether the police report relied on by the licensing authority was sufficiently reliable and whether the licensing decision reasonably found the applicant unsuited to hold a license.
Attorney James McMahon, representing appellant Nancy Dennis, told the panel the police report for an incident on Nov. 12, 2022, consisted principally of the complainant Richard Goucher’s statements to the responding officer and that the…
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