Litigation

Turner Sentenced for Threats on Judges

By Peter Hardin

Internet radio host and conservative blogger Harold Turner, convicted in August of threatening the lives of three federal appeals court judges, was sentenced recently to 33 months in prison.

Turner was convicted at this third trial on the charges. At his sentencing this month, he maintained he was innocent and lambasted U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter and the Chicago-based assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted him, accusing them of  for manipulating the legal system, according to a Bergen County Record article.

One of the judges who was threatened said he was pleased, even though Turner got the minimum prison time.

“It’s all right, Hal Turner is a minimum guy,” said Judge William Joseph Bauer of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, The Jersey Journal reported.

You can learn more about his case from Gavel Grab.

Full post as published by The Gavel on December 29, 2010 (boomark / email).