![]() ![]() It's the dropouts, the drug and alcohol abusers. ![]() ''The members of the chess club, the math and science majors don't listen to this stuff. ''Judas Priest and CBS pander this stuff to alienated teen-agers,'' said Kenneth McKenna, the lawyer for Mr. ![]() Both the group and its record label are charged in a civil suit with the liability arising from the manufacture and marketing of a faulty product, as well as negligence and intentional and reckless misconduct. Today the rock group and CBS Records went on trial in Washoe County District Court here, accused by the men's families of having driven them to suicide.Īs the members of Judas Priest, dressed in dark business suits instead of the dark leather garb they favor on stage, looked on silently, lawyers for the families of Raymond Belknap and James Vance argued that the musicians had placed subliminal messages in several recordings, including the album ''Stained Class,'' thereby inciting the two troubled young men to try to kill themselves. Two days before Christmas in 1985, a pair of young Nevada men shot themselves after listening to albums by the heavy-metal band Judas Priest. ![]()
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