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Trial begins in swastika branding case
Updated: Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012, 2:26 PM MST
Published : Wednesday, 04 May 2011, 1:53 PM MDT
AZTEC, N.M. (KRQE) - Jury selection is underway in Aztec today in the trial for the first man charged with branding a Nazi symbol into a man's arm.
William Hatch has pleaded not guilty to federal hate-crime charges.
Hatch and two others are charged with kidnapping and assaulting Vincent Kee in April 2010. They're accused of branding the mentally disabled Navajo man and shaving a swastika on his head.
The other defendants in the case still face trial.
If convicted, Hatch could get more than 30 years in prison.
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