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NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS/AP) Hal Turner, a right-wing New Jersey blogger, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for making death threats against three federal judges in Illinois in a 2009 handgun ruling.
Prosecutors say Turner crossed a line when he declared that all three judges who dismissed lawsuits that challenged a handgun ban "deserved to be killed."
Turner, who was convicted in August, was sentenced Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court on charges stemming from a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Chicago.
According to The Chicago Tribune, Turner was angry after Judges Richard Posner, Frank Easterbrook and William Bauer upheld a lower court ruling dismissing challenges to Chicago's ban on handguns - a ban which was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Turner, who initially claimed he was a paid FBI informant trying to flush out neo-Nazis with his comments, protested the decision with inflammatory remarks posted on his Web site.
Prosecutors say he wrote the judges involved "deserved to be killed" and posted photographs, phone numbers, work addresses and room numbers of the judges, as well as a photo and map of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, says The Chicago Tribune.
In his postings, the 45-year-old North Bergen, N.J. man also referenced the 2005 slaying of the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow, reports The Chicago Tribune.
"Apparently, the 7th U.S. Circuit court didn't take the hint after those killings," Turner wrote. "It appears another lesson is needed."
The Tribune also reported that Turner similarly threatened three other judges by posting courthouse information in 2005 after they reversed a ruling in favor of white supremacist Matthew Hale.
Upon Turner's release from prison in that case, the judge ordered that he serve six months in home confinement, reports The Chicago Tribune.
Turner had claimed his tirades were protected by the constitutional right to free speech.
The case was moved to Brooklyn based on a change-of-venue ruling. Two previous trials ended with hung juries.NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS/AP) Hal Turner, a right-wing New Jersey blogger, has been sentenced... more
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Hal Turner pleaded not guilty earlier in the day to charges that he threatened to kill three Chicago-based federal appeals judges.
At his bond hearing, defense attorney Michael Orozco said the 47-year-old Turner of North Bergen, N.J., was not a danger to the community as federal prosecutors claim. Turner deserved to be released on bond, Orozco said, adding that he had served as an FBI confidential informant.
Turner had said in Internet postings in June that the three federal appeals judges "deserve to be killed" because they issued a ruling that upheld ordinances in Chicago and suburban Oak Park banning handguns. He included their photos and the room numbers of their chambers at the courthouse.
Orozco said Turner had never advocated the murder of judges but merely gave his opinion, which was constitutionally protected free speech.
Turner is also facing charges in Connecticut for urging people there to "take up arms" against state legislators. He is scheduled to be in court Aug. 4 for arraignment.Hal Turner pleaded not guilty earlier in the day to charges that he threatened to kill... more
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Reactionary radio host and white supremacist Hal Turner was taken into custody Wednesday after remarks urging Catholics to "take up arms" against two Connecticut lawmakers and a state ethics official over legislation being considered in the state legislature regarding the church.
Connecticut Capitol police got a warrant for Turner's arrest. The Hartford Courant fills in the details:
WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY CHURCHES GET TAX EXEMPT STATUS, PLEASE?Reactionary radio host and white supremacist Hal Turner was taken into custody... more
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Two notorious white supremacist media gadflies have called it quits.
Neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner announced July 30 that he was shutting down his weekly Internet program after eight years of broadcasting calls for the assassination of public officials and the mass murder of non-whites and Jews. "I am leaving public life because its impact upon my family can no longer be justified," Turner declared in an E-mail to his listeners. On his website, he sketched out cryptic future plans: "Instead of telegraphing my thoughts in public, I now move to the shadows with my brethren to take sudden, dramatic, irreversible, direct action."
Skeptics noted it wasn't the first time Turner has claimed to be terminating his radio programming. In May 2004, he announced the show was finished because he'd run out of funds. Six months later, he was back. Last January, Turner claimed he was ending the show and quitting the white supremacist movement after the Intelligence Report published evidence that he was a paid FBI informant. A few days later, Turner resumed broadcasting from his New Jersey home.
Not long after Turner's latest farewell, Georgia white supremacist Ed Fields declared that he's folding his 50-year-old newspaper The Truth At Last (formerly The Thunderbolt). The 86-year-old Fields explained simply that it was time to retire.Two notorious white supremacist media gadflies have called it quits.
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The Best of Hal Turner....what do you think?
Aren't these the same type of social affiliations that conservative media was so quick to question Barack Obama about. This guy makes reverend Wright look like a damn saint.......be fair people......The Best of Hal Turner....what do you think?
Aren't these the same type of... more
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Its curious how affiliations are consistently called to question but rarely for those doing the finger pointing...what do you think?Its curious how affiliations are consistently called to question but rarely for those... more
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