Neo-Nazi John Ditullio's Swastika Tattoo to be Hidden from Jury at Second Murder Trial

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (CBS/AP) A second murder trial is beginning Monday for a neo-Nazi whose tattoos are being covered up by a cosmetologist so jurors can't see them.

John Allen Ditullio is charged in the stabbing death of 17-year-old Kristofer King and accused of wounding Patricia Wells inside her mobile home in 2003.

Ditullio has a large swastika, barbed wire and a vulgarity tattooed on his face and neck. The Tampa Tribune reports that a judge ruled the tattoos could sway a jury's opinion and ordered them covered. The state is paying a cosmetologist up to $150 a day to cover the tattoos during Ditullio's trial.

During his first trial, a jury deadlocked after deliberating for almost 10 hours.

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