OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A disagreement over a Douglas County judge's controversial courtroom ban on guns continues after officers who refused to disarm weren't called to testify in court.
Police officers, prosecutors and even fellow judges gathered in a hallway during a hearing on the fifth floor of the county courthouse Monday to see whether an officer would be handcuffed for refusing to disarm.
But prosecutors didn't call two officers to testify because they knew the officers would violate judge James Gleason's courtroom gun ban.
Gleason denied the prosecutor's request to hand off the case to another judge so the officers could testify without the risk of going to jail.
Gleason declined to comment on the dispute.
He is the only judge out of 28 at the courthouse with a no-guns policy.
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