Congratulations. You get to pay to have accused murderer’s tattoes hidden at trial

By at 7 December, 2009, 6:30 am

Look what you get to pay for now. Taxpayers will foot the bill for a makeup artist to cover up some potentially offensive tattoos on the face and neck of a neo-Nazi during his murder trial this week, reports tampabay.com. John Allen Ditullio Jr. of New Port Richey decided to tat himself up since his arrest three years ago for murder. PHOTO: Brendan Fitterer / St. Petersburg Times “This on the side says ‘f— you’ (and) is very offensive regardless of whether he had it (at the time of the crime) or didn’t have it,” defense attorney Bjorn Brunvand argued earlier in court. The judge said he’d allow a licensed cosmetologist to come in daily and cover the tattoos before court each day. The cost: $150 each time. Ditullio is charged with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Kristopher King. Brunvand told the Times that Ditullio,

while in jail, acquired a tattoo that looks like a barbed wire going down one side of his face. He also got a swastika on his neck, too high up to be covered by a shirt collar. Sheriff’s officials say inmates have many ways to tattoo themselves in jail. Sometimes they sharpen a staple or a paper clip on concrete and dip it in ink from a ballpoint pen. “There are a lot of things you can put in your body to make a tattoo,” said Pasco sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Doll. “If we find them, we confiscate them.” More FloriDUH Update from FloriDUH headquarters: Because the Spam bot is such a pest, it’s taking longer for yourFlorida to post. Hang with us. It’ll happen.

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Congratulations. You get to pay to have accused murderer’s tattoes hidden at trial

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