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Calif Supreme Court to hear body armor case

Thursday, March 11, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a ruling that threw out a state law banning convicted felons from owning body armor.

The court Wednesday announced its intention to consider the appeal filed by state Attorney General Jerry Brown.

A lower court overturned the body armor ban in December, ruling that the definition of body armor was too vague.

But Brown says the court failed to follow the test needed to determine whether a law is too vague and needlessly threw out the whole statute.

The ban -- intended to protect officers -- was passed in 1998 after a pair of shootouts between police and suspects wearing bulletproof clothing.

Brown says allowing criminals to use body armor "makes no sense."

The state Supreme Court has not yet set a hearing date.


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