( CNN ) -- Hal Turner , an online radio `` shock jock '' and blogger , was convicted on Friday of threatening to kill three federal judges in Chicago , Illinois , in retaliation for a ruling they made that upheld handgun bans , government officials said . Turner was arrested and charged in June 2009 for posting incendiary comments that said the judges involved in the case deserved to be killed . The three judges he threatened , who had upheld a ban on handguns in Chicago and the Oak Park suburb , testified at the trial . `` There is no place in society for threatening federal judges with violence . Period . We are grateful that the jury saw these threats for what they were and rejected any notion that they were acceptable speech , '' Patrick J.Fitzgerald , U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois said in a statement after the conviction . A sentencing date was not set . Turner faces up to 10 years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine . An after-hours call to Turner 's lawyer , Peter Kirchheimer , was not immediately returned . Turner , no stranger to controversy , wrote online after the federal appeals court ruling in 2009 : `` Let me be the first to say this plainly : These judges deserve to be killed . '' Turner had been referring to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer of the Chicago-based 7th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals , Justice Department officials said . The post included photographs of the judges , their phone numbers , addresses and a map of the building where they work . Turner 's conviction came at the end of a third trial . Two previous trials ended in mistrials after juries said they were deadlocked . Turner has been known to post the names and home addresses of judges he believes are on the wrong side of conservative issues , according to the Southern Poverty Law Center , which monitors hate groups . About former President George W. Bush , Turner once said : `` A well-placed bullet can solve a lot of problems , '' according to the center 's website . It adds Turner has also written that `` we need to start SHOOTING AND KILLING Mexicans as they cross the border '' and has argued that killing certain federal judges `` may be illegal , but it would n't be wrong . ''
Turner faces up to 10 years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine . He had posted photographs and the work addresses of three judges online . Two previous trials ended with deadlocked juries .