Assassinated Judge was Previous RW Target
by Turtle Bay
Sat Jan 08, 2011 at 12:56:36 PM PST
Take a look at this, from Judgepedia:
Judge Roll in 2009, faced death threats after presiding over a $32 million civil-rights lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by illegal immigrants against an Arizona rancher. After Judge Roll ruled the case would be certified, threats came from talk-radio shows which fueled controversy and spurred audiences into making threats against the judge<2>.
The threats materialized after one show, Judge Roll's name logged more than 200 phone calls as some callers threatened the judge and his family<2>.
This resulted in the judge and his wife were under a protection detail for one month as Judge Roll was given twenty four hours a day, seven days a week security by the US Marshals Service. An US Attorney's investigation ruled that four men were identified as threat makers, but no charges were filed<2>.
In a July 9, 2009 interview with the Arizona Republic, Judge Roll described the time under high security as "unnerving and invasive. . . . By its nature it has to be," Roll said. Roll also said, "It (the security) was handled very professionally by the Marshals Service."<2>
At the end of the month, Roll said four key men had been identified as threat makers<2>.
more:
http://judgepedia.org/index.php/John_Rollhttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/8/934352/-Assassinated-Judge-was-Previous-RW-Target