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Too weird for the wire: how black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the feds.(Cover story)

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On November 16, 2005, Willie "Bo" Mitchell and three co-defendants--Shelton "Little Rock" Harris, Shelly "Wayne" Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner--appeared for a hearing in the modern federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The four African American men were facing federal charges of racketeering, weapons possession, drug dealing, and five counts of first-degree murder. For nearly two years the prosecutors had been methodically building their case, with the aim of putting the defendants to death. In Baltimore, which has a murder rate eight times higher than that of New York City, such cases are depressingly commonplace.

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