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Today it takes a keen sense of iconography to know the players. Like their cousins elsewhere, Portland's racist skinheads sport flight jackets, suspenders and Doc Martens with shoelaces in various colors: white for racial purity, red for the blood they are willing to shed and yellow as a signal they have shed someone else's. But another gang of skinheads is slightly different in appearance: the swastikas have diagonal lines slashed through them, and black-and-white breast-pocket patches depict a crucified skinhead with the letters SHARP written over the top. These are the Skin Heads Against Racial...
Skinheads have murdered in every corner of the country. In New York in 1990, 29-year-old Julio Rivera was fatally stabbed and beaten with a hammer by three men connected with the Doc Martens Stompers because he was gay. Later that year in Houston, two skinheads conducted a "boot party" with a 15-year-old Vietnamese immigrant named Hung Truong. Just before he was stomped to death, according to a detective on the case, Truong pleaded, "Please stop. I'm sorry I ever came to your country. God forgive me." In Salem, Oregon, in September 1992, three members...
...strains crossed the Atlantic, but in the late '80s, propelled in part by youthful embitterment at the recession economy, the Nazi versions of the skinhead strutted through such cultural crossroads as San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. They attracted immediate attention for their coiffure, dedication to British Oi! music, black Doc Martens boots and a ferocious appetite for violence -- against blacks, gays and Jews. Sometimes the fury turned inward: in August 1987 a California | group nailed its ex-leader to a 6-ft. plank. (He survived.) "To be a skinhead," says one participant from those days, "none of the other skinheads...
Klaber, a free-lance journalist who designs and builds houses in upstate New York, claims that his program is "the audio equivalent of the Rodney King video." Skeptical listeners may reasonably consider Sirhan's brainwashing by a sex doc rather less plausible than the jury's conclusion that the defendant acted alone. Still, the tapes make a strong case that both the murder investigation by the Los Angeles police department and the subsequent trial were badly botched and left too many questions unanswered...
...most successful sentencing proposals serve clients' interests yet avoid offending judges and prosecutors with excessive calls for leniency. Some can be extremely innovative. When Doc McGhee, the former manager of rock bands Motley Crue and Bon Jovi, was convicted of marijuana smuggling in North Carolina, he faced a tough judge and an aggressive prosecutor. He pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Consultant Hoelter, whose nonprofit firm handles about 750 cases a year as well as sentence reductions in capital crimes, came up with the idea that McGhee should stage rock concerts to raise money...