Reply #11: Extremist (RW) radio host goes down swinging before 33 month sentence is set

[Still a Democrat]

Source: Boston Herald

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Harold C. "Hal" Turner, the Internet radio shock jock and ex-FBI informant, gave a judge and prosecutors a taste of his signature incendiary commentary Tuesday before he was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening three federal appeals court judges.

The ultra-right-wing talk show host and blogger, once popular with white supremacists, protested his innocence and blasted U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter and the Chicago-based assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted him, saying they manipulated the legal system to finally win a conviction after three trials.

"The charge against me was a lie from the beginning, and the verdict was invalid because it was based on fraud," declared Turner, 48, of North Bergen, dressed in a dark gray prison jumpsuit.

In a rambling, nearly hourlong diatribe, Turner accused the judge of "legal skullduggery" for changing the legal definition of a threat and ignoring more than 40 years of Supreme Court case law on freedom of speech and advocating violence.



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