Felony Charges of Possession of a Firearm do not Issue After Clerk Magistrate Hearing

Our client lives in another state nearly one thousand miles from Massachusetts. He has a family member whom he drove to visit in Massachusetts in June of this year. After his visit he decided to take a flight to visit other family members in another state. He drove to the airport and proceeded to his terminal. He placed his bag on the conveyor belt and security was immediately alerted to the fact that in his bag was a handgun. He was unaware that he had in fact left the firearm in the bag when he originally came to Massachusetts for his visit. He was properly licensed to carry that firearm in his state of residence but not in Massachusetts. The man was summonsed for a clerk magistrate hearing seeking a felony complaint for violation G.L. c. 269 Section 12F. He hired Attorney Stephen Neyman to represent him. We were able to convince the clerk magistrate not to issue the complaint.

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