Matt Hale received a 40-year prison sentence today for soliciting the murder of a Federal judge in 2002. The former leader of the Creativity movement was convicted last April of trying to arrange the murder of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow, who had ruled against Hale's group in a trademark infringement case.

"Before you does stand a man who not only is innocent, not only is demonstrably innocent, but who refused to join a plot against Judge Lefkow's life," Hale said during the sentencing hearing.