This is good news!
This will have effect in the Chicago case for incorporation at SCOTUS.
Friday, February 19, 2010
We are pleased with the Washington State Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Sieyes yesterday, which stated that the Second Amendment applies to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Also over at Arms and the Law:
Washington State Supreme Court on incorporation
Posted by David Hardy
State v. Sieyes (pdf), handed down today. Defendant was charged with possession of a handgun by a minor. The court, in an extremely thoughtful ruling (citing Joyce Malcolm, Eugene Volokh, William van Alstyne and others) rules that the 14th Amendment due process clause incorporates the right to arms and makes it binding on the States…
