Opinions on CCW rule

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turbodohc20

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Hi everyone,

Well, I've been debating on wether I should get a CCW license since the bill was passed in Ohio. This week I took some initiative and printed up the application, called around for training classes. Today I found out I'm not allowed to protect myself b/c when I was a teenager I was caught with a joint. That bans me from getting a license for the rest of my life. What kinda BS is that? You can have Assualt charges/Resisting arrest charges and still have a license but get caught with a J when you're a kid and your screwed :barf: . Any of you have opinions on this? Why is a MM drug abuse charge worse than physical assualt/battery or resisting arrest? Doesn't make sense to me. Just wanting opinions. :mad:
 
My opinion is lawyer up. You need to petition a court to set aside your apparent conviction. Was it only a joint? The lawyer can help if it wasn't a large quantity for resale. My experience make me ask why a LEO would bother with a kid and one joint? Was this joint a super duper doobie foot long and 2" around? LOL
 
Actually it was one roach that my sister left in my car when she borrowed it. It was a 93 Mustang Cobra w/tinted windows. I was pulled over for speeding and the tint. Leo come up both sides of the car and seen the roach in the ashtray lol. I was charged with possesion of marajuana. Wrote the ticket. I went straight to the hospital and had a drug test administered. Came up clean of course. Took the results with me to court. Judge said I'm not being charged with drug abuse but drug possesion so he doesn't care about the test. He then dropped charges to drug abuse and fined me $80. That's the story.
 
I am not a lawyer, but,
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I beleive that charge renders you unable to purchase (legally) a firearm as well. There's that thing about "history of drug abuse being a disqualifier for firearms possession. Didn't used to be that way, but more and more things are disqualifiers now. Maybe there's a reason? Maybe the goal is to eliminate everyone? I mean, disqualify. ;)
Anyway, good luck.
 
Since it's been about 7 years, you may be able to apply to have the conviction expunged. Laws vary from state to state, so like a previous poster said, lawyer up.
 
I went to the sherriff's station today to ask a few ?'s. I asked wether or not having it expunged would qualify me, they didn't know. Supposed to call me back with an answer tomorrow. I would love to fight this but I don't have thousands to spend on an attorney. :(
 
Ohio Revised Code Section 2923.13(A)(3), which is "Having weapons while under disability", says ".....was under indictment for or having been convicted of an offense involving the illegal possession, use, sale..... etc etc." You, however, are not screwed. Section 2923.14 is titled "Relief from disability". Way too long to post here, but get a copy of the Code and read it. (Anderson's OHio Revised Code Online, sorry, don't have the URL.) Basically, you'll have to go before a common pleas court judge and show him how you've been a good boy ever since. I don't know if you'd really need an attorney, but if it were me, I'd hire one. Expungement (called something else today; can't remember what) should be a last resort as it's REALLY expensive.
 
Edward

"I think its only about 125-150 dollars."

I talked to a guy here in Ohio a few weeks ago that was awarded an expungement. He told me it cost him over $3000. :eek:
 
Sheriff told me that even if I did get it expunged and sealed, it would still be in their records. Thanks Capt Charlie for the info, I'm going to try and find that now :).
 
Yet another victory in the War on Drugs. :rolleyes:
You ought to be able to get it expunged. There's going to be some paperwork floating around the government somewhere, but what matters is that it won't show up on the background check.
 
A lot of people do not realize that they can do a heck of a lot within the court system themselves without a lawyer. It's just a matter of filing the right paperwork with the correct filing fee in the correct office. Most courthouses have a sort of self help room where the nice ladies will point you in the correct direction. Why pay a lawyer 150 bucks an hour to do the leg work you could do.

Most para legals will sell you the paperwork packets to do various things for 25 bucks or so if you don't want to figure out what form in what format etc..

Not trying to persuade or dissuade the original poster to do it any certain way, but I'll bet 20 bucks that one guys 3 grand went to a lawyer and the filing fee was 150 bucks. ;)
 
I'm going to read over the codes that Capt Charlie gave me. After I read into that I'm going to contact a lawyer and see what they have to say. I'll probably try to do most that I can w/o an attorney to save $. If I have to go to court, I will most likely take a lawyer w/me. I would like to thank everyone for the advice and for not roasting me about being a drug offender, as I thought was going to happen when I posted.

Rick-
 
Or you might check into applying for a chl in a state that has reciprocity with yours, but won't disqualify you for the past offense?
 
Everybody's made mistakes at one time or another. What counts is what you do from then on. Good luck, and keep us posted on how you make out.
 
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