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Related: About this forumAttorney for accused murderer wants jurors who won't judge client's face tattoos
BATON ROUGE, La. A defense attorney for a man charged with murder wants jurors who wont judge his client because of his face and neck tattoos, which include devil horns and skull teeth.
The Advocate reports that most of the potential jurors attorney Jarvis Antwine spoke with Monday said they dont have a problem with William Bottoms Jr.s tattoos.
Bottoms is charged with second-degree murder in the 2017 deaths of two men.
Megan Marie Gaylord was his girlfriend and is scheduled to testify for prosecutors. She told investigators that the four of them did drugs together before a paranoid Bottoms killed the men.
Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/08/09/attorney-wants-jurors-who-wont-judge-clients-face-tattoos/
In this photo provided by East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriffs office shows William Bottoms Jr. The defense attorney for Bottoms, charged with murder, wants jurors who wont judge his client because of his face and neck tattoos, which include devil horns and skull teeth. Most of the potential jurors attorney Jarvis Antwine spoke with Monday, Aug. 5, 2019 said they dont have a problem with Bottoms tattoos. (East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriffs office via AP)
Pachamama
(17,013 posts)To make that his face...
I see some of the symbols on him, including the crossed axes and German Cross that are signs of White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis....
So in other words, this is the face he wants the world to know as his - and yet his lawyer doesn't want the Jury to see it?
Hmmm....
TexasTowelie
(116,694 posts)but he had a twin brother with many of the same tattoos.
Pachamama
(17,013 posts)So very sad...