LANSING (WKZO-AM) — An Allegan man has had a concealed weapons charge against him vacated by the Michigan Supreme Court.
You might call it a technicality. Jason Triplett was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon for using a utility knife to threaten two men who tried to intervene between him and his girlfriend during an argument in 2012.
Triplett claimed he was trying to defend himself from the interlopers and was found not guilty of assault, but the local judge said that couldn’t claim self-defense on the concealed weapons charge.
Triplett appealed, and the high court ruled that, since the law doesn’t specifically say he can’t use self-defense as an argument for a CCW charge, the judge erred. The justices threw out the lower court’s ruling and vacated the conviction.
