Hal Turner is a human piece of excrement and white nationalist, wait–I repeat myself–who threatened three federal judges including Richard Posner after a ruling on the Chicago gun ban. It took three trials to convict him largely because he used a defense that it was all political trash talk. In comments I was reminded of the case:
Two things in life you never know, Whoa a widow will marry and what a jury will do.
My suspicion is that there was a bad juror. It happens. Fitzgerald needed 3 trials to convict Hal Turner. Blago’s time will come. Rushing to the lobby of the Dirksen Building to spit in Fitzgerald’s face was not a wise decision.
Here’s a bit on the Turner conviction in the end.