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Sudetenland Tales
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Prosecutors said the victims; ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased by the defendants on Newport Avenue after one of them apparently spoke to another Hells Angels member's girlfriend, a crime.
One of the victims fled, but the other two were severely beaten by numerous defendants, who hurled racial slurs and told the victims they didn't belong in that neighborhood.
While one of the beaten victims was on the ground, Scholder pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest. Deputy District Attorney Miriam Hemming said the knife fractured the victim's sternum, pierced his lung, and severed an artery, nearly causing the man to bleed out.
Scholder's prison sentence was doubled due to a prior strike conviction, in which Scholder pleaded guilty to robbing a former Hells Angels member who had sought to leave the gang.
Defense attorney Marc Kohnen argued against imposing the strike conviction because he said Scholder had been living crime free between that incident, which occurred in 2007, and the Venice Beach incident; though to date that defense has never been successful for a White client.
Kohnen also argued that despite jurors finding the hate crime allegation true, there wasn't evidence that Scholder's actions were hate motivated or that Scholder used any racial slurs