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Article: White supremacist said judge's life was not in danger in papers filed before murders.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- March 3, 2005
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Byline: Matt O'Connor and Kevin Pang
CHICAGO _ In a court filing days before the murders of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow's relatives, jailed white supremacist Matthew Hale contended authorities owed him and the judge apologies for causing Lefkow and her family "to think that her life was in danger needlessly and wrongly."
Saying he had "devoted my life to legal and peaceful change," Hale denied soliciting Lefkow's murder and called his incarceration a "Kafkaesque nightmare."
Hale, who is representing himself, filed the court paper last week, but it only became public after Lefkow's husband, Michael, and mother, Donna Humphrey, were found ...