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Ali Winston

Jailed, released, jailed again: whiplash in a leading neo-Nazi’s legal case

A mass of mostly young white men holding tiki torches surround a statue at night.
White nationalists participate in a torch-lit march at the University of Virginia on 11 August 2017. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters

The violent neo-Nazi Robert Rundo thought he’d won freedom last week after a US district court judge in California threw out a federal indictment against the white-nationalist militant, arguing prosecutors selectively went after him and did not put far-leftist protesters through the same treatment.

Fewer than 12 hours later, Rundo found himself in jail again on the order of appellate judges from the ninth circuit.

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