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TexasTowelie

(117,584 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 01:39 PM Aug 2019

Attorney 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 won’t 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 don’t 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 Sheriff’s office shows William Bottoms Jr. The defense attorney for Bottoms, charged with murder, wants jurors who won’t 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 don’t have a problem with Bottoms’ tattoos. (East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s office via AP)

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Attorney for accused murderer wants jurors who won't judge client's face tattoos (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2019 OP
He must have so much anger and self-hatred in him to do this to his face Pachamama Aug 2019 #1
I don't know if you clicked the link, TexasTowelie Aug 2019 #2
I did see that he had a twin who did many of the same tattoos Pachamama Aug 2019 #5
If that's not a face straight outta hell, I don't know what is (along with the rictus Trump grin) NBachers Aug 2019 #3
His face screams "lock me away forever" Pachamama Aug 2019 #4

Pachamama

(17,040 posts)
1. He must have so much anger and self-hatred in him to do this to his face
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 02:08 PM
Aug 2019

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

(117,584 posts)
2. I don't know if you clicked the link,
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 02:16 PM
Aug 2019

but he had a twin brother with many of the same tattoos.

NBachers

(18,197 posts)
3. If that's not a face straight outta hell, I don't know what is (along with the rictus Trump grin)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 02:22 PM
Aug 2019
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