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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Ind. Courts - "Radio Host Is Convicted for Comments on Judges"
Updating this ILB entry from August 10, 2010, and this one from August 11th quoting Judge Posner's compelling testimony in the third trial of "blogger Harold "Hal" Turner, the New Jersey white supremacist charged with threatening to kill three Chicago federal judges," Colin Moynihan of the NY Times reports in a story dated August 13th that begins:
A right-wing Internet radio host was convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Brooklyn of threatening three federal judges who had issued a ruling he disagreed with.Two previous prosecutions of the host, Harold C. Turner, ended in mistrials after jurors were unable to agree on a verdict, but the decision Friday came after less than two hours of deliberation.
Mr. Turner, 48, posted inflammatory Internet messages about the three appeals court judges who had upheld a ban of handguns in Chicago. He was charged with a single count of threatening to assault or kill the judges with the intent of impeding their official duties.
In a June 2009 posting about their unanimous decision to uphold the gun ban, which the Supreme Court overturned in June, Mr. Turner wrote, “If they are allowed to get away with this by surviving, other judges will act the same way.”
Mr. Turner, who lives in North Bergen, N.J., also wrote a blog entry accompanied by photos of the judges in which he said they “deserve to be killed.”
[Updated 8/16/10] "In Third Trial, Blogger Found Guilty of Threatening 7th Circuit Judges," reported by Mark Fass of the NY Law Journal.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 14, 2010 04:47 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts