On his Web site, William A. White had applauded the murder of a Chicago judge’s family.
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A neo-Nazi who once applauded the murder of a Chicago judge’s family members should have a judge from outside that city preside over his trial, defense lawyers and prosecutors said.
William A. White of Roanoke, who is awaiting trial in Chicago on a charge of encouraging violence against a juror, had asked for a new judge based on his own Internet writings from four years ago.
Shortly after the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan Lefkow were found shot to death in their Chicago home, White wrote on his Web site that he didn’t feel bad about the crime.
“In fact, when I heard the story I laughed,” White wrote in a post that credited white supremacists for the killings. ” ‘Good for them!’ was my first thought.”
After federal prosecutors cited the Internet posting in a revised indictment against White last month, his lawyers argued that for any Chicago judge to preside over his trial would create at least an appearance of bias.
In papers filed this week in U.S. District Court in Chicago, prosecutors concurred.
“The government agrees that the law is clear that in order for disqualification to be proper, there need not be a showing of actual partiality on the part of the judge … but rather the mere appearance of partiality,” Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan wrote.
White, head of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, is being held without bond on a charge of encouraging violence against a juror in the trial of fellow white supremacist Matthew Hale.
In 2004, the year before Lefkow’s mother and husband were killed in what turned out to be an unrelated case, Hale was convicted of soliciting the judge’s murder.
Although the Hale case had been closed for years, White brought it up in a Sept. 11, 2008, post on his now-defunct Web site, overthrow.com. Federal prosecutors said that by posting the address and telephone numbers of the Hale juror, White hoped that one of his readers would harm the man.
No trial date has been set for White. Judge William Hibbler is expected to rule on the motion for a new judge by April 2, the next scheduled hearing in the case.
SOURCE: http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/198078
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So, he wants a new judge for his trial, eh?
He: “once applauded the murder of a Chicago judge’s family members”, “awaiting trial in Chicago on a charge of encouraging violence against a juror,” “Shortly after the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan Lefkow were found shot to death in their Chicago home… said on his site that he didn’t feel bad about the crime,” “when I heard the story I laughed,” ” ‘Good for them!’ was my first thought.”
White has shown the vilest contempt for human life in his hateful statements.
He actually thinks that judges outside of Chicago will not have a problem with his disregard for the life of Judge Lefkow and her family members in applauding their murders? Or that he threatened a juror?
Not likely.
He should have thought of that before he made all those nasty comments/threats.
He has made his bed.
He is going to have to lie in it.
Ann
