Legal Opinion
United States v. Matthew Hale
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 30, 2006No. 05-1922PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
‘ PER CURIAM.
Matthew Hale was convicted after a jury trial on two counts of obstructing justice, 18 U.S.C. § 1503, and one count of soliciting a crime of violence, id. § 373, in connection with his resistance to a judgment entered against his white supremacist organization by United States District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow and his involvement in a plot to have the judge murdered. Hale was sentenced to a total of 480 months’ imprisonment.
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Hale was the “Pontifex Maximus” of a white supremacist organization formerly known as the World Church of the Creator (“World Church”). A law school…
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