From the Associated Press:
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.--A Colorado man who claimed he was trying to defend himself from a mugger when he shot himself in the groin has been convicted of illegal discharge of a firearm. Investigators said there was no evidence to substantiate David Leroy Blurton's self-defense claim and jurors convicted the 50-year-old on Wednesday. The shooting happened at the parking lot of a grocery store in Dillon, Colo., on May 2009. Prosecutors say Blurton had been drinking.
Jurors also convicted Blurton of "prohibited use of a weapon--drunk with a gun" and reckless endangerment.
"Drunk with a gun." That's always bad.
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