The Attorney Arguing Patrick Adamiak's Appeal

Attorney Matthew Larosiere has experience defending those accused of violating nonsensical gun laws and is known as a fighter within the country's tight Second Amendment legal community. He understands exactly what Patrick "Tate" Adamiak is facing legally, but he's never seen anything like it.

"There are three categories of charges, and each one is more insane than the last one," Larosiere said Monday. "What Tate's case shows you is that it doesn't matter what you have, they can still charge you."

Adamiak is about to start the third year of his 20-year federal prison sentence. However, based on the appeal Larosiere wrote and argued in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last month, the appellate court found that the trial court had violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Adamiak had been sentenced for both possessing and receiving an unregistered firearm and then for possessing of the same firearm under a different statute, the court said in its decision.

"That would be the same as charging someone with murder and manslaughter for one death," Larosiere said. …