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Sudetenland Tales

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during the incident, though to date that defense has never been successful for a White client.

Hemming argued that during the crime, Scholder was "leading a pack of men" who were shouting racial slurs and that he had long associated with co-defendants who espoused White supremacist views. She also said Scholder had White supremacist tattoos and had used racial slurs on prior occasions.

One of those incidents led to a misdemeanor conviction in 2003, which included a hate crime allegation, Hemming said. In that incident, the prosecutor said Scholder got into a fight with a black man at a bar after the victim asked Scholder to stop smoking a cigarette next to him.

When police came to arrest Scholder, he called the victim the N-word multiple times, said he "knows people who would hang them from trees," and told one of the arresting officers to "remember the Fatherland," according to Hemming.

In the Venice incident, the prosecutor said the victims were "just walking down the street" before they were attacked. She said one witness described the victims being "beaten within an inch of their lives."

After the stabbing, other co-defendants spirited Scholder from the crime scene to the gang's clubhouse in El Cajon, prosecutors