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In court Wednesday, one member of NSC-131, a white supremacist group active in New England, said "I am effectively being denied local counsel" after the group struggled to find a New Hampshire lawyer willing to represent them.
The New Hampshire Department of Justice is pursuing civil charges against two members of the hate group for allegedly hanging a racist banner in Portsmouth last summer.
New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced a civil petition against NSC-131 and two of its members, Cullinan and Christopher Hood, in January.