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Man Gets 8 Years for Liening Property of 3 Federal Judges

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Posted Apr 7, 2010 2:08 PM CDT
By Martha Neil

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The already-imprisoned founder of a the Montana Freeman militia group has
been sentenced to an additional eight years for liening the property of three
federal judges after winning a default judgment from a "court" of his own
creation.

Daniel Petersen, now 67, is the first individual ever convicted under a 2008
federal law that makes it a felony for an individual to retaliate against a
judge by filing a false lien, reports the Seattle 911
blog of the Post-Intelligencer. He was sentenced yesterday in federal district
court in St. Paul, Minn.

His Common Law Court of Justus Township issued the liens after then-U.S.
Secretary of State Madeline Albright didn't answer Petersen's 10-page,
handwritten demand for $100 trillion for his alleged unlawful confinement, the
newspaper recounts, relying on information from prosecutors.

The article doesn't include any comment from Petersen or his
counsel.

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