U.S. v. TURNER

No. 11-196-cr.

720 F.3d 411 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Harold TURNER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 21, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Dolan ( Ronald G. Russo , David Wikstrom , Harvey M. Stone , Elizabeth Wolstein & David J. Katz , on the briefs), Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

William R. Ridgway , Assistant United States Attorney ( Manish S. Shah , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Patrick J. Fitzgerald , United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, IL, for Appellee.

Judge POOLER dissents in a separate opinion.


LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:

On June 2, 2009, Harold Turner published a blog post declaring that three Seventh Circuit judges deserved to die for their recent decision that the Second Amendment did not apply to the states:

If they are allowed to get away with this by surviving, other Judges will act the same way. These Judges deserve to be made such an example of as to send a message to the entire judiciary: Obey the Constitution or die.

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