内容摘要：RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man living in his car was wrongfully convicted of having a sem

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man living in his car was wrongfully convicted of having a semiautomatic weapon when he parked outside a university hospital and sought emergency medical care, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

An Orange County jury in 2022 found Joseph John Radomski III guilty of firearm possession near the hospital on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. A police officer had spoken to him and recovered several guns from inside his car. Radomski received probation and a suspended sentence.

The intermediate-level state Court of Appeals panel determined that under Radomski’s circumstances the law that makes it a low-grade felony to possess a firearm on “any kind of educational property” was unconstitutionally applied to him by restricting his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The ruling doesn’t completely strike down the law, which is designed to protect the public from potential gun violence in sensitive areas like schools.