At double-murder trial, jury won’t see defendant’s racist social media

A Virginia judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot tell the jury in an upcoming double-murder trial about the defendant’s social media posts containing praise for Adolf Hitler and support for Nazi book burnings and the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, according to newly unsealed court records.

Nicholas Giampa was indicted in 2019 on charges of shooting and killing his girlfriend’s mother, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and stepfather, Scott Fricker, 48, after they confronted him inside their Reston home three days before Christmas in 2017. The court had kept records in the case hidden from public view, but a judge last month ordered them released after a motion from The Washington Post and the Associated Press, over the objection of prosecutors and defense attorneys.