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Feds: Gang Members too Dangerous for Court:  A U.S. Attorney in California has asked a federal judge to allow ten members of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang to appear in court via video rather than in person for required hearings.  Stan Stanton of the Sacramento Bee reports that the gang members are facing trial for running drugs, smuggling phones and ordering murders from inside California prisons.  After learning that some of the gang members held in the Sacramento County Jail or state prison awaiting trial, were communicating with each other about the security procedures, types of locks and the smuggling of a cell phone, U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott asked the judge to permit their participation by video rather than take the security risk of transporting them from their cells to the courthouse. The Brotherhood is the most violent gang in U.S. prisons with a long record of running wide ranging criminal enterprises while behind bars and brutally murdering rival gang members, law enforcement and corrections officers and anyone else who gets in its way.  Their defense attorneys argue that "there is nothing to suggest that these guys have any intention of escaping."  Five of the defendants face the possibility of a federal death sentence. 

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