CHICAGO, March 3 (UPI) -- A jailed white supremacist says the federal government "needlessly" frightened a Chicago federal judge whose mother and husband were slain this week.
Jailed white supremacist Matthew Hale filed court documents last week saying the federal government owes him an apology as well as U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow.
Hale's 13-page petition was made public after Lefkow's husband and mother were found slain in the family home Monday, the Chicago Tribune said Thursday.
In April, a federal jury convicted Hale of soliciting Lefkow's murder after she ordered Hale's World Church of the Creator to change its name because it infringed on the trademark of an Oregon church.
Hale claims federal authorities led Lefkow and her family "to think that her life was in danger needlessly and wrongly."
U.S. District Judge James Moody will presided over Hale's trial and has set aside three days for Hale's sentencing next month.
Hale has been incarcerated since early 2003 in the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center under restrictive conditions usually reserved for suspected terrorists.
