Taxpayers Forced To Pay For Neo-Nazi's Daily Makeover

So much for all that tribalism cant that says a Tat is an expression of self. Not when you're going to court, anyway. The idiot had a swastika and more tattooed on him in plain sight, including his face. Now the taxpayers have to cough up up to $150 a day for a cosmetologist to make him up every day before court. Heck. It's be cheaper to just cut his head off and let him carry with him in a paper bag! heh!

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) -- John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 6-inch swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawled on one side of his neck.

Jurors will never see any of it. A judge has ruled that the state must pay a cosmetologist up to $150 a day during Ditullio's trial on murder and attempted murder charges and apply makeup to cover up the black ink.

Judge Michael Andrews, acting on a request by Ditullio's lawyer, ruled that the tattoos are potentially offensive and could influence a jury's opinion in the state's death penalty case against the 23-year-old accused of donning a gas mask, breaking into a neighbor's home and stabbing two people, killing one of them.

Comments

[mark l.]

"Ditullio"...
would have gone with a name change, over the tatoos.

[Al in St. Lou]

The judge should not have ruled that the tats would prejudice the jury. He should've said it's how the defendant had chosen to present himself to the world. No way the taxpayers should be footing the bill, at least force him to buy and apply his own make-up.

[D]

I wonder (besides concealing his identity -duh-) why he chose to don a gask mask? Weird. I wonder if he used chemical weapons to stun the victims?

[Elmo]

Ya know, haven't had a real vacation in a forever. But when the day comes, they flush this turd down the bowl. I'd be ever so happy to make the trip. And dance a lil jig, outside the prison gates.

Cya .. bye

[seekeronos]

Insanity. This thug ought to be seen the way he intended the world to see him - as a nazi and a murderous goon.