Attorney O’s Midnight Musings: Connecticut Law

Blogger Accused Of Threatening Connecticut Legislators Is Free on Bail

October 22, 2009 on 10:00 pm | In Criminal Law | No Comments

Do New Jersey blogger Harold “Hal” Turner’s posts threatening Connecticut legislators and opining that three federal judges in Illinois deserve to die constitute free speech as he asserts? Or should he be convicted of inciting violence against state lawmakers, for which he has been charged?

Read today’s Hartford Courant article on courant.com below:

Blogger Hal Turner Free On Bail; Accused Of Threatening Connecticut Legislators

For background on the Turner case, I refer you to two articles published in The Huffington Post :

Hal Turner, Talk Radio Host, Facing Charges For Inciting Violence Against Officials [published online 6/4/09]

Hal Turner, Internet Radio Host, Arrested For Inciting Violence Against Public Officials…Again [published online 6/24/09]

For additional background, here is a link to Wikipedia:

Hal Turner on Wikipedia