Inmate Guilty in Plot to Kill McVeigh Judge
From Times Wire Reports
A Texas prison inmate was found guilty of trying to enlist two fellow prisoners to kill the judge who presided over the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh in order to send a message about white supremacists.
It took an Amarillo jury less than an hour to find Christopher Bennett, 28, guilty on two counts of soliciting to commit a crime of violence when he promised in January 2001 that white supremacist groups would pay the other inmates to murder U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch.
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