POSTED: Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 at 1:27 pm

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

A jury’s guilty verdict against a white supremacist charged with soliciting violence against a juror has been set aside. The defendant, William White, posted a photograph, the home address and the phone numbers of a juror on his website, Overthrow.com. White frequently posts calls for murder and injury to various individuals at the site, but [...]

POSTED: Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 at 11:39 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Soliciting a juror’s injury Sufficiency of the evidence; First Amendment Even though the defendant posted the address and phone numbers of a juror, along with a call for violence, the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction for solicitation to injure a juror. “In order to obtain a conviction in this case, the government had [...]

POSTED: Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 12:02 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Evidence Lay witness identification It was not error to permit the defendant’s sister and ex-girlfriend testify that he is the individual in a photograph taken during a bank robbery. “While White did not wear a disguise, the view of his appearance in the surveillance video and in still shots was limited by his attire—he wore [...]