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Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Not to worry, Nebraska (and most/all other states) has this definition codified into law:

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=60-624

You are correct that "freeway" or more likely some variation of "controlled access freeway" will have a separate legal definition that is closer to what normal people probably think of when they hear the word "highway."

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ah shit ok, you're right then, this 'highway' is pretty much just 'any publicly maintained road' in Nebrasaka.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Not just Nebraska but most, possibly all, US states. From what I've seen, anyhow. Hence my note about it being a term of art. In the law books it doesn't mean the same thing normal people think it ought to mean.

    (Same thing with "assault," incidentally.)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Well shit, TIL.

    Genuienly thank you for the uh... legal education, I guess you'd say.

    Maybe its just that the state I am from is particularly weird about this, or maybe I just had an unfounded notion.

    Either way, always appreciate being less wrong.

    And yeah woooey assault is not what most people think it is, either as a crime in and of itself, or, as a descriptor of a class of weapons.

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