White supremacist Matt Hale was found guilty of planning to murder a federal judge. Hale, leader of the World Church of the Creator, was convicted Monday in a Chicago federal courtroom of solicitation of murder and three counts of obstruction of justice. Hale arranged for a man to kill Judge Joan Lefkow after she ruled against him in a trademark case.
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