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Article: Lawton not guilty of disorderly conduct
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- September 26, 2007
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After more than a year's worth of postponements and a day-and-a-half long trial, Common Pleas Judge Anthony Mariarti found Pamela Lawton not guilty of disorderly conduct on Sept,. 21, in spite of his obvious misgivings about her version of events surrounding the charges.
Lawton, who claimed Pittsburgh Police officer Eric Tatusko pulled his weapon on her then 7-year-old daughter Joshalyn during a traffic stop August of last year, was cleared of summary disorderly conduct charges, but found guilty of vehicle code violations associated with the stop.
While Mariarti flatly dismissed accusations that Tatusko threatened to shoot and called Lawton's testimony "wholly incredible," he also said that ...