While on probation, he was arrested again and charged with possession of a firearm by a narcotics addict and possession of ammunition.

Specifically, the court ruled that a person could not be criminally punished for being a narcotics addict, which would be like making it a crime “to be mentally ill, or a leper, or to be afflicted with a venereal disease.”

Milch's father, Elmer, was a renowned surgeon, but he was also a narcotics addict and alcoholic with ties to the underworld.

"I'm not suggesting that Nutall was a bad guy, but he was a narcotics addict and the people in the neighborhood supplied him with narcotics," Baliunas said.

He has, for example, called Hispanic officers "lazy," described a blond television newscaster as an "Aryan broad" and branded his own son -- whom he disowned after the youth spent a year in jail for robbery -- "a narcotics addict."