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Federal courts in North Carolina have ordered the government to release prison inmates who federal prosecutors have agreed are "legally innocent" but said should remain locked up nonetheless.Among the first to have his conviction thrown out was Terrell McCullum, who was featured in a USA TODAY investigation in June that identified more than 60 inmates who were imprisoned for violating federal gun possession laws, even though courts have since determined that it was not a federal crime for them to have a gun.
These cases have been controversial, but the fact is that, if a crime has not been committed, then people shouldn't be in jail. In many of these cases, it is not a crime to own a gun, and as an advocate for the Second Amendment, I think this was the right decision.
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