Alleged Racial Killing Case Goes to Jury
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Jurors began deliberating murder charges against a former Army paratrooper accused of killing two black people, supposedly to earn a skinhead tattoo. James M. Burmeister could face the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree murder. Burmeister is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the slayings of Jackie Burden and Michael James on Dec. 7, 1995.
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