Taxpayers to Pay to Cover Defendant’s Tatoos Before Murder Trial

St. Petersburg Times:  “Taxpayers will foot the bill for a makeup artist to cover up some potentially offensive tattoos on the face and neck of a neo-Nazi during his murder trial slated for next week.  ‘This on the side says ‘f— you’ (and) is very offensive regardless of whether he had it (at the time of the crime) or didn’t have it,’ defense attorney Bjorn Brunvand argued in court Friday.”