Lawyer: SLAYER Tattoo On Hate Crime Suspect Has 'No Racial Overtones'

May 26, 2004

David Doege of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that a lawyer representing a Wisconsin man accused of beating a Hispanic man in a racially motivated attack has contended in court that his client's tattoo of the heavy metal group SLAYER has "no racial overtones" in response to the District Attorney's request to allow her to use the belongings and photos as "other acts" evidence that can be permitted under court rules to prove motive or intent.

After three men and a woman were arrested last fall on suspicion of beating a Hispanic man in a racially motivated attack, police went to their homes and seized an array of white supremacist literature, music and emblems.

They hauled away an English copy of "The Last Will and Testament of Adolf Hitler", Aryan race record albums, Confederate flags, "skinhead/white power" compact discs, pamphlets with anti-Jewish propaganda and a bumper sticker declaring "White Men Unite and Fight", according to inventories filed in Circuit Court. [Read more].

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