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Account of Open Carry Trial in Arkansas
Eventually, Chambless’s trial began. Bald Knob City Attorney Don Raney, who served as prosecutor, provided an opening statement in which he explained that “we believe we can prove the necessary elements of carrying a weapon”; he referenced former Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s largely irrelevant opinion on Act 746 in his opening statement, as he did several times during the trial.
Chambless’s defense attorney Shane Ethridge also made an opening statement, arguing that to prove that the defendant was breaking the law, the prosecution would have to demonstrate that the defendant was carrying a weapon with an unlawful purpose – so, Ethridge added, “in order to find him guilty, you’ve got to say that self-defense is illegal in the state of Arkansas.”
Source: http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/account-of-open-carry-trial-in-arkansas.html
