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Nov 23, 2009 8:47 pm US/Eastern
White Supremacist In Court On Probation Violation
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Shackled in handcuffs and leg irons, white supremacist and self-avowed fascist Hardy Lloyd paused briefly in the Allegheny County Courthouse before sheriff deputies took him before a judge on parole violations.
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Shackled in handcuffs and leg irons, white supremacist and self-avowed fascist Hardy Lloyd paused briefly in the Allegheny County Courthouse before sheriff deputies took him before a judge on parole violations.
Docile and subdued, he seemed a different Hardy Lloyd from the boastful one on the internet earlier this year, calling himself the "Lone Wolf" and praising the actions of accused police murderer Richard Poplawski.
At his hearing Monday, his attorney, John Knorr, said Lloyd was mentally ill.
"He's a very sick and complicated individual and part of his illness was manifested in the rantings that were being spewing on the internet," he said.
Lloyd has been in the county jail for nearly six months – ever since police raided his Crafton apartment and found a cache of weapons, including several semi-automatic pistols, two long guns and various knives and swords.
The discovery of the weapons violated the terms of probation stemming from his arrest in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Lori Hann, in Squirrel Hill in 2004.
A jury accepted Lloyd's plea of self-defense but convicted him of possessing unlicensed firearms and he was forbidden to possess firearms.
At his hearing, his attorney asked that Lloyd be transferred to Torrance State Mental Hospital instead of continued jail time.
Sheehan: "Do you believe we should be lenient on him even though he said those outrageous things because he's mentally ill?"
Knorr: "I don't think it's a matter of being leniency. It's a matter of he needs some institutional confinement."
But during the hearing, an FBI agent approached the bench and informed Judge Lawrence O'Toole that federal firearms charges were being filed against Lloyd.
If convicted federally, Lloyd would go away for a long time.
Knorr: "There is a potential depending upon how the charge – a potential minimal mandatory sentence of five years."
Sheehan: "Is that going to be just?"
Knorr: "Depends where he does it."
Sheehan: "You'd like him to do it at a mental institution."
Knorr: "Absolutely."
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