Turner to be tried for 3rd Time?
Trial of shock jock Hal Turner ends in second mistrial
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the retrial of ultra-right wing shock jock and former FBI informant Hal Turner after a jury deadlocked on whether Turner threatened the lives of three federal judges.
U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter dismissed the panel of seven men and five women after they failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the third day of deliberations in the weeklong trial.
The impasse was an obvious disappointment for Turner, whose previous trial in December on the same charge also ended in a mistrial, with a 9-3 majority in favor of acquittal.
Jurors, citing an instruction from the judge, declined to comment on their deliberations and refused to disclose how they voted.
Walter set a new trial date for April 12 and appointed Peter Kirchheimer, the chief federal public defender in the district, to represent Tuner, who filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey on the eve of trial.
Asked whether the government will prosecute Turner for a third time, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan said prosecutors will review the matter, but added, “I’d say it’s highly likely.”
Turner’s lawyers — Nishay K. Sanan of Chicago and Michael A. Orozco of Newark — who represented him in both trials, said the government should be “embarrassed” because it had called the three judges to testify at the this trial and still couldn’t get a conviction.
“It’s not the victory we wanted, but it’s definitely a victory,” Orozco said.
“After two trials he’s still not convicted, so that’s a win,” Sanan said, adding that Turner went head-to-head with three of the nation’s top judges.
Turner’s mother, Kathy Diamond, 66, said his family was disappointed that Walter didn’t dismiss the charges.
“They put on their finest show, judges and all. It’s time to say ‘uncle’ and let everybody get on with their lives,” Diamond said.
Turner, 47, of North Bergen, who grew up in Ridgefield Park, built an audience of white supremacists and neo-Nazis with an Internet radio show and blog that featured racist rhetoric and frequent calls for violence against public officials with whom he disagreed.
But while he maintained a public persona as an ultra-right wing shock jock, Turner also worked as a confidential informant for the FBI’s counter-terrorism squads, gathering intelligence on the Aryan Nation, the National Alliance, skinheads and white power groups.
In June, FBI agents acting on complaint filed in Chicago arrested Turner on a charge of threatening to murder or assault three judges from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an incendiary blog post in which he wrote they “deserved to be killed” for upholding a local gun ban.
The judges, who were not called at Turner’s first trial, testified last week that they took the threat seriously, though they didn’t request additional protection and were never harmed.
Turner testified he was merely exercising his First Amendment right to offer an opinion and that his FBI handlers had coached him on what was protected speech and what was not.
Powerful evidence of that came in the form of FBI documents which showed that after Turner opined that another Chicago judge was “worthy of being killed” in his blog and on national television in 2005, FBI lawyers concluded he was operating within their guidelines.
Turner’s lawyers acknowledged that financial reasons played a role in their parting but also said Turner wants a “new set of eyes” on the case.
The judge cautioned Turner to adhere to a gag order imposed as part of his $500,000 bail.
“You must not do anything to get the press further involved in this case,” Walter warned. “I do not want to move the case to Juneau.”
Walter, a Louisiana-based judge, was assigned to preside over the case after Turner was indicted in Chicago this past summer. He moved the trial to New York so Turner would not have to stand trial in the same building where the three judges work.
Earlier in the afternoon, the jurors sent a note to the judge saying they had taken numerous votes but couldn't break the deadlock.
"Unfortunately, positions have solidified and folks have stated they they will not change their minds no matter how much longer we continue," the jury forewoman wrote.
E-mail: sampson@northjersey.com
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http://judicialmisconduct.blogspot.com/2010/03/us-no-release-political-prisoners.html
Are the CIA, FBI, and the military complicit in funneling heroin and cocaine into the US from Reagan, maybe as far back as JFK, into the US? Are citizens and non-citizens in the US who get in the way held as political prisoners without release dates? Click above link.
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Splintering Groups, A Government Plan
BEWARE OF GOVERNMENT RUN PSYOPS, SPOOKS AND AGENT PROVOCATEURS.Text with video:
COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPROs of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations.
An example of a COINTELPRO agent?
HAL TURNER.
If you recall he's been trolled by certain internet forum-goers in the past, and he attracted such trolling for good reason. He made outrageous statements and claims, such as demanding that a black congresswoman Cynthia McKinney BE LYNCHED.
Why? Because it was mandated by the individuals overseeing the COINTELPRO operation to DEFAME, AND DISCREDIT RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS.
Watch the video, it's been PROVEN that he was working for the FBI ALL ALONG! THIS IS NOT A JOKE! THE U.S GOVERNMENT IS ACTUALLY DOING THIS!
Hal Turner has been at this for a while now, so consider that, this has all been a GAME, a game to run the republican party into the ground starting with Bush, and subsequently by INSTALLING provocative commentators to further discredit the party.
They're doing this ALL OVER, EVEN ON YOUTUBE. KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS OPEN TO THOSE WHO MAKE OUTRAGEOUS, DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS.
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http://judicialmisconduct.blogspot.com/2010/03/hal-turner-diaries-cont.html
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If you are out protesting or complaining about Connecticut Police Misconduct, is this the goon squad that is out to get your photo and name for the Connecticut State Police "Enemies List" where you are a click away from having your life ruined?
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Internet Trolls: What you should know
Text with video:
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My Complaint to the USDOJ
"Dying for Liars"Are US Troops who are told they are upholding the US Constitution, fighting for Freedom, and making the world a better place, being lied to? Are they lying down their lives and suffering horrifically for lying liars who think nothing of stepping over their corpses?
Click below link for video and link to text of Steven G. Erickson's complaint. Text mailed to the United States Department of Justice, Washington DC. Sent out March 11, 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuruL8O6v58
Should Enfield, Connecticut, US Senator John A. Kissel be arrested and prosecuted for seeing a constituent going to prison just for asking that Judge Jonathan J. Kaplan be removed, exposing Connecticut State Police misconduct? Kissel sent a letter to me in prison. I asked him what he was going to do about me being railroaded to prison for free speech and for redressing grievances to me. His response to me in a letter mailed to me in a Connecticut prison was, "Life is unfair".
Should Connecticut US Senator Chris Dodd be arrested and jailed for selling you out and living like a king at the country's expense?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjmV2f9IEtM
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Should judges be the guardian against free speech? Should Judge Jonathan J. Kaplan profit from abuse and the enjoyment of harming fathers and their families?:
http://thegetjusticecoalition.blogspot.com/2010/03/j-kaplan-hearing-transcripts-feb-17.html
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Do the FBI and Police use tax dollars to hire provocateurs to infiltrate protest groups to discredit and splinter them to be ineffectual? Do police and FBI hire "informants" to beat up, set up, and/or kill "Big Mouth" or target citizens? The answers:
http://thesrv.blogspot.com/2010/03/splintering-groups-government-plan.html
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