White supremacist Matthew Hale, who is serving a 40-year prison sentence for seeking to have U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow murdered, has filed a malpractice lawsuit against his former attorney. Hale is seeking $30 million in damages. He alleges that Thomas Durkin charged Hale's father legal fees for services that never were performed and claims that Durkin improperly excluded white jurors and worked to get blacks on the jury, which worked against his case.
August 07, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A white supremacist serving a 40-year prison sentence for seeking to have a federal judge murdered has filed a malpractice lawsuit against his former attorney.
A jury convicted Matthew Hale in April 2004 of soliciting his security chief, who was working as an FBI informant, to kill U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.
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