Wednesday, February 20, 2013

White supremacist sentenced in jury case 'misunderstanding' - chicagotribune.com

White supremacist sentenced in jury case 'misunderstanding' - chicagotribune.com: A 35-year-old self-avowed white supremacist convicted of soliciting an attack on a jury foreman who served on a federal trial in Chicago was sentenced to 3 and 1/2years in prison this morning at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.

William White, found guilty in 2011 of one count of solicitation, targeted the juror on his website, overthrow.com, because he had served as foreman on the jury that convicted downstate white supremacist Matthew Hale of soliciting the murder of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow after she ruled against him in a trademark-infringement case.

In a 2008 posting, White, of Roanoke, Va., named the foreman as the "gay Jewish anti-racist'' juror who had helped convict Hale, and also made references to his longtime partner. He then splashed personal details about the juror — who is not Jewish — on the website, including his color photo, home address, phone numbers and even his cat's name.