NRA's Top Lawyer Convicted of Murder in 1964

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Originally Posted by Danzig

well..but he really seems to be their kind of guy. i mean, no background checks are what they support.
i wonder what they'll do about the story?

but...isn't his 'reinvention' or whatever you want to call it a good thing? he learned from what happened and has seemingly followed the straight and narrow since.
and if the cops were shady...they were shady. we decry such things all the time. we can't do otherwise in this case, just because the guy happens to be an nra fellow.

As I said earlier, I really posted this for Dell.

But yes, I generally support rehabilitation. And it's quite impressive that a thief, armed robber, assaulter-with-a-deadly weapon (the pawn shop owner he shot but didn't kill) and (likely) murderer turned his life around.

The full article, at Mother Jones, gives more detail on the investigation and is really interesting reading:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...murder-mystery

Regardless of whether I think the guy did it (and I do), shoddy police work is shoddy police work and confessions and convictions based on bad work should be overturned. The NYPD, for example, is under a lot of fire right now as more and more instances of chokeholds (the latest on a 7 month pregnant woman) come to light. Chokeholds having been outlawed here as a police tactic since the 1990s.