Chris Christie commutes gun sentence of Brian Aitken

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Commutes Sentence of Man Sent to Jail for Owning Guns Legally
Brian Aitken, 27, seen here in an undated photograph, was sentenced to seven years in Prison for guns his attorney and father claim were owned legally. Some experts told FoxNews.com the entrepreneur was a Victim of the country's "patchwork" of Gun Laws. A man given seven years in Prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday. The case of Brian Aitken, 27, had become a cause célèbre ...

Christie Commutes Sentence of Legal Gun Owner...
Brian Aitken, 27, seen here in an undated photograph, was sentenced to seven years in Prison for guns his attorney and father claim were owned legally. Some experts told FoxNews.com the entrepreneur was a Victim of the country's "patchwork" of Gun Laws. A man given seven years in Prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday. The case of Brian Aitken, 27, had become a cause célèbre ...

Leadership: Governor Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitken's Sentence
by the Left Coast Rebel We didn't cover the story here but certainly were aware of it, the case of New Jersey resident Brian Aitken (pictured right) convicted to seven years in Prison for the possession of two Handguns that he legally purchased in Colorado. Allahpundit provides some background: ...he’s a cause celebre among Libertarians and Second Amendment fans — for good reason. In a nutshell: He bought three guns, entirely legally, when he was living in Colorado and brought them...

Real good news: NJ man jailed 7 years for owning legal guns gets sentence commuted by Chris Christie
This truly is good news! An update on a post from 3 weeks ago: NJ Judge jails man 7 years for owning legal guns, lets man free for having sex with animals. From New Jersey Online via memeorandum: Gov. Chris Christie commutes sentence of man convicted of having guns in N.J. illegally Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be out of Prison in time for Christmas. Gov. Chris Christie commuted Aitken's s...

NJ Man Released From Prison Day After Commutation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man has been released from Prison one day after Gov. Chris Christie commuted the man’s seven-year sentence for violating Gun Laws. A Corrections Department spokeswoman says 27-year-old Brian Aitken, who was found with guns he’d purchased legally in Colorado, left Mid-State Correctional Facility Tuesday morning. Aitken was sentenced to Prison in August. In 2009, he muttered to his mother that life wasn’t worth living, then left her home in...

Christie commutes gun sentence
Gov. Christie on Monday commuted the seven-year sentence of a New Jersey man convicted on weapons charges after guns were found in his car trunk. The Philadelphia Daily News reported that the guns were found in the car of Brian D. Aitken as he was moving from Mount Laurel to Hoboken. He bought the guns legally in Colorado, and New Jersey's Firearms exemption allows weapons to be transported if the owner is moving. But then-Superior Court Judge James J. Morley would not allow the jury's request ...

NJ Gov. Chris Christie commutes Aitken's sentence
Amanda Carey is a political reporter at the Daily Caller. She previously worked for Robert Novak and Reason Magazine. Carey is a graduate of Clemson University in South Carolina. New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken’s Monday, reducing his sentence from seven years in Prison to time already served. According to Christie’s order, he will be released as soon as it’s “administratively possible.” As The Daily Caller previously r...

Chris Christie commutes sentence of man jailed for owning guns [Darleen Click]
You may recall the case of Brian Aitken, a man sentenced to seven years in Prison for transporting his legally owned guns in his car’s trunk while moving from Colorado to New Jersey. The NJ prosecutor and (now former) judge refused to allow the jury to hear those facts. Gov Christie has commuted Aitken’s sentence. TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie has commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to seven years in Prison after being found with guns he’d purchased l...

Today's Chris Christie Lesson in Government
Abuse of the justice system must be corrected: New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken’s Monday, reducing his sentence from seven years in Prison to time already served. According to Christie’s order, he will be released as soon as it’s “administratively possible.” As The Daily Caller previously reported, Aitken, 27, was arrested in New Jersey in 2009 after police found unloaded guns in the trunk of his car that had been purc...

Gov. Chris Christie commutes sentence in New Jersey gun case
Gov. Chris Christie has commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to seven years in Prison after being found with guns he'd purchased legally in Colorado. Twenty-seven-year-old Brian Aitken's case had become a cause celebre among gun-rights advocates. In 2009, he muttered to his mother that life wasn't living, then left her home in Mount Laurel. She called police, who found two Handguns in the trunk of his car. He says he was in transit in a move to Hoboken — which should exempt him...

Christie Commutes Gun Sentence
TRENTON -- Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns that he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be spending Christmas out of Prison. Gov. Chris Christie commuted Aitken's sentence, from seven years to time served, according to an order the Governor signed today....

Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitken's Sentence
This is great news: Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two Handguns that he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be spending Christmas out of Prison. Gov. Chris Christie commuted Aitken's sentence, from seven years to time served, according to an order the Governor signed today. Aitken had appealed to Christie for commutation after being sentenced in August. According to the commutation order, Aitken will be released as "soon administratively possible." I'm waiting to he...

Christie Commutes Aitken's Gun Charge To Time Served
I don't know if this was mentioned here. Readers tipped me by email, but I didn't write a post. Maybe it was sidebarred. Basically a guy in New Jersey got a very long sentence for Gun Possession under very dubious circumstances. His mom had alerted police about him, as she was worried he might be suicidal. They stopped him, and found guns in his trunk, which they called illegal -- but they weren't necessarily illegal, as it's legal to transport guns when moving from one home to another, as he s...

UPDATE: Gov. Christie Commutes Brian Aitkens Sentence to Time Served
Just yesterday, Gov. Christie commuted Brian Aitken’s sentence to time served and earlier today he was released from state custody. Christie commuted Aitken’s sentence Monday, shortening it to time served. It was the first time he has commuted a sentence since taking office almost a year ago. “The Governor has reviewed all the facts of Brian Aitken’s case and has commuted his sentence to time served,” Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said Monday. “Consideri...

The Chris Christie Magic
I was just reminiscing about the halcyon era of a popular New Jersey Governor whose brash style and Reaganite agenda took the Garden State by storm, proving that true conservative principles can win the day even in deep Blue States. Come on the nostalgia tour with me, won't you? Here's Jennifer Rubin at Commentary: The good news for Christie fans is that there are a few scraps suggesting that he hasn’t entirely closed the door on a 2012 run. (”Christie’s actions aren’t t...

Matthew Continetti: 'The Christie Cometh' on Ricochet.com
This is Chris Christie's moment. The New Jersey Governor is touring the country in support of Republican Candidates. He's taken on the Public Sector Unions. He's made some hard calls. He speaks in a blunt, confrontational style. Yet he remains popular. Most striking, he's a Republican from the Northeast who has national appeal. Last week Christie won a Tea Party presidential Straw Poll--in Virginia. In September, he came in second in another Straw Poll--held in Chicago. Christie denies any inter...

Christie frees man wrongly prosecuted.
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey sprung Brian Aitken, 27, from Prison. From Jason Nark: “Christie signed a letter ordering Brian Aitken, a New Jersey man sentenced to seven years in jail for having weapons he legally purchased in Colorado, to be released from Mid-State Correctional Facility as soon as possible.” It was a bizarre case. He was arrested for having the gun in his parents home. Radley Balko at Reason magazine has the particulars. The case should never have been pro...

Violent crime stays down as more Washingtonians are packing
   Violent Crime continued to decline in Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue during the first half of 2010, according to crime data released Monday by the FBI, yet Gun Ownership and the number of people licensed to carry in the Evergreen State continues to rise.    This revelation, reported in this morning’s Seattle Times, will make it tough for Washington Ceasefire and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to convince state lawmakers, the press and public that more guns ...

N.J. Man Spared 7 Years in Prison for Guns Legally Owned
Source: ABC News A New Jersey man serving seven years in Prison for possessing two legally-owned guns, disassembled and in the trunk of his car while moving residences, has had his sentence commuted. Brian Aitken, 25, a successful media consultant, had been in the process of selling his home in Colorado and moving to a suburban New Jersey apartment to be closer to his son, 2, when he was arrested in a bizarre sequence of events. His lawyers had called the subsequent trial and conviction the "p...

Sentence commuted in NJ gun transport case
Governor Chris Christie yesterday commuted, to time already served, the sentence of Brian Aitken, convicted last August of unlawful possession and transport of Firearms. But Aitken still vows to make the conviction itself go away. Thanks to the Governor's action, reported by George Mast of The Courier-Post (Cherry Hill), Aitken, 27, will be home for Christmas and will not have to serve any more of his 7-year Prison sentence. The commutation came down at 4:30 p.m. The commutation means only that ...

Brian Aitkens Sentence Commuted
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has commuted the seven-year sentence of Brian Aitken, the man wrongfully convicted on Firearms charges under that state’s draconian Gun Laws. Good. While a full pardon seems more appropriate - the judge in this case should have given the jury instructions on the “moving exception” that protected Aitken - this is at least recognition of an injustice and relief for one man and his family. The New Jersey state judicial system’s ...

Chris Christie: The Scourge of Trenton
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New Jersey Wants to Spare the Rest of the Country From Chris Christies Emotional Abuse
Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a rising star in the Republican Party and possible Candidate for higher office in a few years, would not make a good president, according to 63 percent of New Jersey voters, including 36 percent of Republicans. Christie was compared to Pepsi by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein yesterday — good in sips, but too much is overwhelming. [Quinnipiac] ...

New Jersey Senate Supports Bill Funding Planned Parenthood
The New Jersey state Senate on Monday approved a bill that would restore the state Taxpayer funding of the family planning efforts run by the Planned Parenthood Abortion business. Last month, the state Assembly approved a pair of bills to restore the funding pro-life Gov. Chris Christie revoked for financial reasons. However, the passage of the bills came seven votes shy of what is needed to override another expected gubernatorial Veto. Yesterday, senators voted for S2393/A3273, which transfers ...

Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitkens Sentence To Time Served
For your viewing pleasure, one more reason to love New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Brian Aitken’s sentence has been commuted to time served by the Governor. As you’ll recall, Christie had promised to look into this ridiculous case before Christmas leaving those of us rooting for Aitken with a glimmer of hope. Five days before Christmas, the hope has arrived. I posted originally here about the completely senseless case of Brian Aitken who was sentenced to 7 years in Prison due to New Jer...