7th Circuit: White Supremacist Can Be Charged for Web Post About Juror

June 30, 2010

A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court should not have dismissed a charge that an avowed white supremacist used his website to urge others to harm the foreman of a jury that convicted another white supremacist, Matthew Hale, of soliciting a federal judge's murder. The 7th Circuit said Monday that William White's Web post falls outside First Amendment protections.