Temple City : Race Crime Records Sealed
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Case records were sealed Monday in federal court after a Temple City man was sentenced for the 1990 burning of a tiny cross on the front lawn of a black family’s home.
Defense attorney Anna Ho requested that the records be sealed to protect Christopher Michael Knight, 22, who she said had no prior criminal record.
Knight and a juvenile accomplice, both members of a neo-Nazi group called “The Faith,” pleaded guilty Feb. 1 in U.S. District Court to two misdemeanor criminal charges of intimidation based on race.
Among other acts, Knight admitted burning a nine-inch cross made of Lincoln Logs on Feb. 8, 1990.
He faced two years in prison and a $200,000 fine, but information detailing the sentence was withheld because of the court order.
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