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[maddezmom]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x510926

CHICAGO - White supremacist leader Matthew Hale, whose gospel of "racial holy war" was linked to a follower's deadly shooting rampage five years ago, was found guilty Monday of trying to have a federal judge killed.

Hale, 32, was found guilty of four of the five charges against him. He was found innocent of one of two counts of soliciting the murder of a federal judge. The judge was not attacked.

Prosecutors said Hale was furious after U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow ordered him to stop using the name World Church of the Creator. Lefkow had ordered Hale to stop using the name because it had been trademarked by an Oregon-based religious group that has no ties to Hale.

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[dArKeR]

1. Hale earned a law degree and passed the bar exam but was denied

a license in 1999 by an Illinois committee that rules on the "character and fitness" of prospective lawyers. The panel held that his racist views would prevent him from fulfilling a lawyer's duty not to discriminate against participants in court cases. He unsuccessfully appealed the decision all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.


This is interesting, from a legal viewpoint!