A Florida judge ordered the state to pay for a neo-Nazi gang member to have a swastika and other tattoos covered by makeup at his murder trial.
The judge ordered the state to pay for a cosmetologist to apply makeup before trial each day to cover up the tattoos on John Ditullio’s face and neck, which include a swastika, barbed wire and an obscene word.
John Ditullio, 23, is charged with stabbing to death 17-year-old Kristofer King in 2006 in New Port Richey, which is north of St. Petersburg.
His lawyer argued in a pretrial motion that the tattoos – which Ditullio got AFTER his arrest – could prejudice a jury.
The judge agreed but ruled that any tattoos Ditullio had before his arrest in the stabbing death of Kristofer King should not be covered.
BTW, Ditullio could face the death penalty if convicted in the hate crime killing of the gay teen, who died in an attack on a family that lived next door to Ditullio’s home at the American Nazi compound.
And that’s the latest news on the court-ordered Nazi tattoo coverage in the murder trial of Judge Orders Nazi Tattoo Covered At State Expense.
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