Lovelace Faces Trial On Racketeering Count White Supremacist Refuses Oath To Tell Truth During Arraignment

A March 30 trial date has been set for an Idaho death-row inmate implicated in an alleged plot to establish a white homeland within the United States.

Faron Lovelace pleaded innocent to a racketeering charge at his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate David Young on Tuesday. The trial is expected to last five weeks.

The 40-year-old Sandpoint man is a co-defendant with two other white supremacists accused in the deaths of an Arkansas family. He is not charged in those deaths but has been ordered executed in Idaho for the 1995 killing of Jeremy Scott, 23, because he believed Scott was a government informant out to disrupt Lovelace’s plans to kill local officials as part of a white supremacist revolution.

If convicted on the Arkansas racketeering charge, he could be sentenced to life in prison and fined $250,000.

Appearing before Young, Lovelace politely declined to swear an oath to tell the truth and said little else during the brief hearing. He said nothing as federal marshals led him in and out of the courtroom.

U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele has imposed a gag order in the case.

Meanwhile, Danny Lee of Yukon, Okla., also known as Danny Graham, has asked that his case be severed from the one against Lovelace and Chevie Kehoe.

Lee and Chevie Kehoe, both 24, each face seven charges, including racketeering and three counts of murder in aid of racketeering in the deaths of a William Mueller, 53, his 28-year-old wife and their 8-year-old daughter.