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According to a January Associated Press report from Zinnowitz, Germany, Cuban pro boxer Juan Carlos Gomez, in town training for his next fight, was racially insulted by two skinheads in a billiard hall. Gomez punched one man in the face, and the skinheads left. Three days later, a larger group of skinheads confronted Gomez and his entourage in front of their hotel and resumed the insults. Again, Gomez punched one of them in the face, and the crowd left.
give us a logical reason for wearing the slippers.”
In October Lyman Ray Postoak Jr., 44, was found guilty of armed robbery in Oklahoma City. Postoak chose to act as his own lawyer during the two-day trial and wore his jail-issued orange coveralls in front of the jury, telling the judge he felt more comfortable in them. The jury gave Postoak 125 years.
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