4/25/14 GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man charged with
first-degree murder is afraid the tattooed mirror-image letters spelling
out the word "murder" across his neck might prejudice a jury, so he is
asking for a professional tattoo artist to remove or cover it up.
Prosecutors say they aren't opposed to
Jeffrey Chapman covering his tattoo, but Barton County's sheriff says
he's against transporting Chapman to a licensed tattoo facility — the
only places tattoo artists are allowed to practice under Kansas law.
The Great Bend Tribune
(http://bit.ly/1hdCklp ) reports Chapman's trial is scheduled to start
Monday in the November 2011 killing of Damon Galliart, whose body was
found by hunters in a roadside ditch southwest of Great Bend.
Chapman's attorney says in a motion the tattoo would be extremely prejudicial if seen by a jury.
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