I came home today interested in blog coverage of the murder of federal Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother in her home yesterday. Everyone seems more interested about today's USSCT decision outlawing the death penalty for juvenile offenders.

This is really an astonishing and bizarre crime. Judge Lefkow had ruled against a white supremacist group in a trademark dispute (!!) and one of its members was subsequently arrested for plotting to have her killed in retaliation. The supremacist was scheduled to be sentenced next month.

Someone, presumably associated with the supremacist group, entered Lefkow's home and killed her husband and 89-yr-old mother, and the judge found them on returning from work.

Unbelievable.

01 Mar 05