Trial begins in Idaho Wal-Mart race beating case

Jul 16th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk

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Associated Press Writer= BOISE, Idaho (AP) â?" Four shoppers plotted an attack against a 24-year-old man they encountered in the aisles of a Wal-Mart, then followed him to the parking lot and beat him â?" all because the man is black, a federal prosecutor told a jury Thursday.

But the attorney for Richard Armstrong, one of the shoppers, countered that his client only got into a fight last year on Independence Day because he's a paranoid methamphetamine user â?" not a racist.

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