The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld white supremacist Matthew Hale's 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of federal Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, brushing aside his claim that he had repeatedly said he wanted nothing to do with the crime. According to trial evidence, Hale was enraged because Lefkow ordered his group to stop using the name World Church of the Creator. Lefkow's husband and mother were killed in her home last year by a man who had no relation to the Hale case.
May 31, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A federal appeals court in Chicago on Tuesday upheld white supremacist Matthew Hale’s conviction and 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of a federal judge, brushing aside his claim that he had repeatedly said he wanted nothing to do with the crime.
“As the government has maintained, Hale tried to ‘create plausible deniability in the event his conversation was being monitored,’” a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
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