Longer Prison Sentence Sought for Supremacist
From Times Wire Reports
Federal prosecutors in Chicago are seeking a stiffer sentence for a white supremacist convicted of soliciting the murder of a federal judge whose husband and mother were found dead in her home last month in an unrelated attack.
Prosecutors said in a court filing that Matthew Hale faced up to 40 years in prison.
The filing said the government would seek to increase Hale’s sentence because the murder solicitation “was a crime of terrorism” under federal guidelines.
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