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June 25, 1999
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A jury in Virginia convicted a Ku Klux Klan leader of cross-burning on Wednesday and fined him $2,500. Barry Black, a KKK imperial wizard, had faced up to five years in prison for violating a state law against burning a cross to intimidate any person or group of people. His black lawyer, David Baugh of the American Civil Liberties Union, had claimed that his client was exercising his right to free speech.

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