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Flash back about 25-30 years ago, my dad owned a small little pawn shop in Portland, which was also a FFL. The story goes, a Portland police officer came in and demanded an item from our jewelry case because a lady with him swore up and down that was her piece of jewelry that had been stolen. After repeated threats of "being arrested" one of the counter people handed over the jewelry to the officer. A lawsuit followed with the Portland police which my dad won, but that in general opened a huge can of worms. His store was raided multiple time by the PPD to check records, which always came back clean and well documented. This happened several times over the years. My dads business partner (in the pawn shop) come to find out was not doing as he should have with his personal taxes. So a trial for the business partners personal taxes started and essentially anyone that had loaned him $5 was linked into the case. In the end everyone was charged with the "knowledge that someone was going to commit tax fraud" (mind you I was about 14-15 when all this happened so that's how i remember it) and my dad ended up spending about 4 years in Vegas.
Flash forward to now, I'm in my 40s, my dad is about to hit 70, has been a business owner for the last 20 years, has been an over all decent person to the world. But is still labeled a felon. With much pushing from me he started to explore getting his right back and he found who he thought was a good 2A lawyer, who ended up being a joke that couldn't even respond properly to the DA when they slightly pushed back.
I am just trying to to track down someone that isn't going to fold under some slight push back from the DA that's still claiming my dad could be a threat.
Any recommendations you could send my way would be greatly appreciated, thank you!!
Flash forward to now, I'm in my 40s, my dad is about to hit 70, has been a business owner for the last 20 years, has been an over all decent person to the world. But is still labeled a felon. With much pushing from me he started to explore getting his right back and he found who he thought was a good 2A lawyer, who ended up being a joke that couldn't even respond properly to the DA when they slightly pushed back.
I am just trying to to track down someone that isn't going to fold under some slight push back from the DA that's still claiming my dad could be a threat.
Any recommendations you could send my way would be greatly appreciated, thank you!!