{"id":21869,"date":"2017-04-20T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21869"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:46:56","slug":"bill-to-consider-intent-for-knife-possession-charge-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21869","title":{"rendered":"Bill to consider intent for knife possession charge advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would clarify the intent of Nebraska\u2019s deadly weapon statute was advanced from general file April 20.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20160\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20160\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20160\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenSchumacher_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senschumacher_inline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Paul Schumacher&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenSchumacher_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20160\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenSchumacher_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Paul Schumacher\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenSchumacher_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenSchumacher_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Paul Schumacher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, Nebraska statute considers possession of any knife with a blade longer than 3.5 inches to be a deadly weapon, regardless of the owner\u2019s intent. LB558, sponsored by Columbus Sen. Paul Schumacher, would clarify that the intended use of the knife should be considered when charging a person with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>He said carrying a knife in a tackle box or picnic basket could result in a felony charge for possession of a deadly weapon under current statute. LB558 would correct this by taking into consideration a person\u2019s intended use of such a knife when determining whether or not to file criminal charges, Schumacher said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was advanced to select file on a 34-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would clarify the intent of Nebraska\u2019s deadly weapon statute was advanced from general file April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-21869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-paul-schumacher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LB558Schumacher4-20-17a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21870,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions\/21870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}