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The NRA's Top Lawyer Was Once Convicted Of Murder (ZOT!)
Business Insider ^
| 7/29/14
| Pamela Engel
Posted on 07/30/2014 7:49:34 AM PDT by PlasticMan
The National Rifle Association's top lawyer, who has been instrumental in shaping gun policy in the U.S., was once convicted of murdering a woman in Indiana....
Robert J. Dowlut, general counsel for the NRA, reportedly admitted to police in 1963 that he killed his girlfriend's mother. He was 17 years old at the time. Dowlut reportedly led police to the graveyard where he buried the gun and also copped to attempting to rob a pawnshop the same night as the killing.
Bullets from the gun Dowlut unearthed at the graveyard matched those found at the site of Anna Marie Yocum's murder and at the pawnshop, according to Mother Jones.
A jury found Dowlut guilty of murder, but his conviction was later overturned because of shoddy police work during the investigation....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; dowlut; guncontrol; murder; nra; secondamendment; zot
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To: Darksheare
To: BuckeyeTexan
That’s incorrect. The jury found him guilty. Sorry, I misread that last bit of the blurb, and put a "not" in front of the "guilty". Thanks for the correction.
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:00:23 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
To: PlasticMan; TheOldLady; KC_Lion; onyx; exDemMom; F15Eagle; Hardraade; MestaMachine; ...
Oh yeah, and here's something to help you in filling out the FR ButtHurt Form:
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:03:40 AM PDT
by
Col Freeper
(FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
To: BuckeyeTexan
He likely will now after this story in Mother Jones, which was probably the intent.Doubt that. Witnesses are dead. Gun is still inadmissible. Interrogation is inadmissible. There was a reason for not having a retrial when his conviction was overturned. They had no evidence left.
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:09:06 AM PDT
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: BuckeyeTexan
They have no evidence and no witnesses, everyone but Dowlut is dead now.
In spite of the fact that it is in Mother Jones, it’s a great read. I especially enjoyed the catalog of the yeoman work Mr. Dowlut did for the NRA.
I don’t think they meant to have this effect, but after reading the article I am impressed with and grateful to Mr. Dowlut.
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:11:05 AM PDT
by
Valpal1
(If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
To: Col Freeper; All
Thank You, for the post!
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:16:16 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Mullah / "Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: PlasticMan
thy name is, ZOTEE!
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:22:11 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Mullah / "Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: Col Freeper
IATZ
Thank you, Sidebar Moderator, and Col Freeper. Good catch!
They always seem to creep out of the woodwork when we’re nearing an election, don’t they?
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:27:53 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: PlasticMan
Yeah, that's right.
And yer next.
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:32:31 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: PlasticMan
Noob got the ZOT!!
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:35:04 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: PlasticMan
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:44:09 AM PDT
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: PlasticMan
"According to Mother Jones..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:46:06 AM PDT
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: Starstruck
"Doubt that. Witnesses are dead. Gun is still inadmissible. Interrogation is inadmissible. There was a reason for not having a retrial when his conviction was overturned. They had no evidence left." Whether he's convictable or not doesn't matter to the Liberal Left, as long as the trial is covered daily on the front page of The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and every night on CBS, NBC, and ABC News.
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posted on
07/30/2014 9:52:52 AM PDT
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: PlasticMan
It’s a classic case of a perp getting off on a ridiculous technicality.Oh, you mean like how Bill Ayers, known to be admired by Presidant Obama, never spent a day in jail for plotting to detonate terrorist style bombs in public areas?
That kind of "rediculous technicality"?
To: PlasticMan
Tell me, is your ZOT a “rediculous technicality”?
To: PlasticMan; Sidebar Moderator; Slings and Arrows; Graybeard58; Col Freeper; humblegunner; ...
So long, PlasticMan (Posting History)
Hat Tip to Sidebar Moderator, and Slings and Arrows, Graybeard58, and Col Freeper, who pinged me
Commie leftist troll digs up a nothing scandal re: an NRA lawyer and tries to make hay
Troll couldn't be more wrong, and is treated to a hot reception by being the main course in the VK's mess
Never dig up old zombies, for they may eat your brains... Uh, well... not your brains -- yuck!
Thank you, Mr. Eaker and humblegunner for the Miss Lizzy graphic!
FReepmail TheOldLady to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.
To: TheOldLady
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posted on
07/30/2014 10:47:58 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: TheOldLady
Burning plastic has a rather nice smell...
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posted on
07/30/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(One day on Mercury lasts 1408 hours: The same length as one Monday on Earth.)
To: TheOldLady
Hat Tip to Sidebar Moderator, and Slings and Arrows, Graybeard58, and Col Freeper, who pinged me You do have your fans, don't you?
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posted on
07/30/2014 10:50:28 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
( A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Eccl 10,v 19)
To: PlasticMan
Obama’s best friend, Bill Ayers, is a domestic terrorist. Obama lied during the campaign and said he did not know Ayers. After he won he fessed up and said they met weekly.
Got anything to say about THAT, stupid liberal??
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posted on
07/30/2014 10:51:01 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Are!)
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