Ex-"Klansman" David Wayne Hull gets 12 years

[Brewski]

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Klan Sect Leader Sentenced for Pipe Bomb

David Wayne Hull

(Photo courtesy of the ADL.)

PITTSBURGH -- The leader of a Ku Klux Klan splinter group was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday in what prosecutors said was the nation's first conviction under a new anti-terror law.

David Wayne Hull, 42, was convicted of teaching a government informant posing as an anti-abortion activist how to use a pipe bomb at a November 2002 white supremacist gathering on Hull's property south of Pittsburgh.

Federal pr

osecutors said Hull also gave the informant parts to make a bomb.

The 2002 anti-terror statute bans instructing others how to use pi
pe bombs or other dangerous weapons to commit a crime. It carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence.

Hull testified at his May trial that he suspected the informant might be working for the government so he didn't give him a fuse along with the other bomb parts.

Hull's group, the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, had a Web site showing his picture and address, but it was taken down after he was indicted. Authorities believe the group is now defunct.

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These "government informants" seem thick as flies lately!
:angry:

 

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Klan leader gets reduced sentence

Klan leader gets reduced sentence

PITTSBURGH -- A Ku Klux Klan splinter group leader who taught another man how to use a pipe bomb at a white-supremacist gathering was resentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison Tuesday.

David Wayne Hull, formerly of Washington County, had been sentenced in February 2005 to 12 years in prison in what prosecutors said was the nation's first federal conviction under a new anti-terror statute.

The 2002 statute bans instructing others how to use pipe bombs or other dangerous weapons in furtherance of a crime. But a year ago, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the count, ruling that "mere possession of a pipe bomb does not qualify as a federal crime of violence."

Hull's attorney, Chris Eyster, said he was pleased with the shorter sentence and called it "a victory of sorts."

Hull indicated he wanted to appeal and Eyster said he would file a motion asking to be appointed as his attorney for that.

At the time of Hull's arrest in 2003, a Web site for a now-defunct group called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had a photo of him holding a gun in front of a Confederate flag. The Web site included Hull's address, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh.

In May 2004, Hull was convicted of four illegal weapons charges, including the anti-terror statute, pertaining to the pipe bomb parts he gave a federal informant who posed as a member of the Army of God, a group that has praised those who kill abortion doctors and bomb clinics. Hull was also found guilty of possessing an illegal silencer, possessing 15 guns after being convicted of terroristic threats in 2001 and witness tampering.

Hull's trial ended in a split verdict with a jury acquitting him of other weapons charges stemming from pipe bombs set off in abandoned cars on his property.