Matthew Hale sentenced

Howard Bashman at How Appealing highlights here portions of reports from newspaper articles concerning the eventful sentencing of white supremacist Matthew Hale to 40 years in prison today.  As this Chicago Tribune article details, the 40-year term was the statutory maximum, but also apparently constituted a within-guideline sentence because “Judge James T. Moody found that Hale’s solicitation to murder Judge Joan Lefkow was a crime of terrorism — the first such finding in Chicago’s federal court.”