Opinion ID: 2640351
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Defendant's Arrest and the Search of His Apartment

Text: In the early morning hours of March 2, 1996, police officers executed a search warrant at defendant's apartment in Tustin with the assistance of the Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT team. They arrested defendant, who was in the living room, and Domenic Christopher, [5] who had fled through a window but was quickly apprehended nearby. Bob Mix, who was present in the apartment with defendant, was detained and taken to the police station. On a wall in the bedroom shared by defendant and Christopher, police officers observed a poster that read across the top, Celebrate Martin Luther King Day (Martin Luther King poster). The bottom of the poster read, If they would have shot four more, we could have had the rest of the week off from work. The word death was written below Luther in Martin Luther King. The police seized the following items from defendant's bedroom. (1) A notebook containing writing on numerous pages. One writing was entitled Blessed Be Ye Ears that discussed killing the meek, talked extensively about devastation and death, called Robert Dulaney Ex-Con, stated that Dominic was a 2/11 member but had not reached any levels, and declared that Death is apperant in all my members eyes, kill spill the blood of the meek. The meek shall inharent shit. The stronge shall survive my tounament of death (errors in original); (2) a box bearing the words Mixed Fruit and Gunner's Box, and two pairs of gloves on top of the box; (3) a Bible with Presented [¶] to Bambi [illegible] [¶] by Gunner Lindberg inscribed on the inside front cover and listing the names of White supremacist organizations, a White supremacist leader, and a White supremacist newsletter on the last several pages. Inserted among the pages of the Bible were various papers and printed material, including:

(c) a piece of paper that read Failure to speak up, a silent and deadly killer written by Jack Mohr, a Brigadier General who heads a White supremacist organization known as The Crusade for Christ and Country, an envelope showing Mohr's return address that was addressed to defendant, an envelope and a letter dated October 31, 1994, addressed to Mohr and showing defendant's name and return address, and two handwritten letters from Mohr addressed to defendant; (d) a printed form entitled The Nationalist Party of Canada Membership Oath that read, I declare that I am a racist who respects other races with common sense and good will and fair play towards the maintenance of my racial integrity and identity. [¶] I pledge to establish and maintain the constitutional racist state homeland....; and (e) a piece of paper bearing the title Pro White Organizations, listing the name and addresses of 12 organizations, including the Aryan Research Fellowship, the Ku Klux Klan, and the White Aryan Resistance; (4) a cardboard box bearing the words 2/11 Insane LOC, Insane Loc, I.C.P., and O.G., with lightning bolts and two swastikas; (5) a plastic skull with a motorcycle helmet bearing a swastika across the top; and (6) a T-shirt belonging to defendant with a small bloodstain about the size of a nickel.