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===Running for district attorney===

===Running for district attorney===

In September 1984, Bolin ran for the office of Bossier-Webster Parish District Attorney,<ref>"Bolin is candidate for district attorney," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' July 12, 1984, p. 3.</ref> but he lost by 122 votes to the incumbent and fellow Democrat Henry Newton Brown, Jr., of [[Bossier City]]. The tally was 16,447 for Brown to 16,326 for Bolin.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', October 2, 1984, p. 1</ref> Bolin carried forty-one of the forty-eight precincts in Webster Parish but only two in Bossier Parish.<ref>"Bolin not ready to concede," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' October 1, 1984, p. 1.</ref> In that campaign, Bolin accused Brown of having dropped 230 charges against suspects, including some who were accused of [[murder]], [[rape]], [[narcotics]] violations, and driving while intoxicated.<ref>Bolin advertisement, ''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 12, 1984, p. 1B.</ref> Later during the decade [[CBS]]'s ''[[60 Minutes]]'' ran a story on Brown stressing the district attorney's aggressive prosecution of murder suspects.<ref>"Brown: 'People Should Pay for What They Do!,'" ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 25, 1989, p. 1.</ref>

In September 1984, Bolin ran for the office of Bossier-Webster Parish District Attorney,<ref>"Bolin is candidate for district attorney," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' July 12, 1984, p. 3.</ref> but he lost by 122 votes to the incumbent and fellow Democrat Henry Newton Brown, Jr., of [[Bossier City]]. The tally was 16,447 for Brown to 16,326 for Bolin.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', October 2, 1984, p. 1</ref> Bolin carried forty-one of the forty-eight precincts in Webster Parish but only two in Bossier Parish.<ref>"Bolin not ready to concede," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' October 1, 1984, p. 1.</ref>  

 

In that campaign, Bolin accused Brown of having dropped 230 charges against suspects, including some who were accused of [[murder]], [[rape]], [[narcotics]] violations, and driving while intoxicated.<ref>Bolin advertisement, ''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 12, 1984, p. 1B.</ref> Later during the decade [[CBS]]'s ''[[60 Minutes]]'' ran a story on Brown stressing the district attorney's aggressive prosecution of murder suspects.<ref>"Brown: 'People Should Pay for What They Do!,'" ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 25, 1989, p. 1.</ref>

===As 26th Judicial District Court judge===

===As 26th Judicial District Court judge===