ROANOKE -- A U.S. magistrate judge in Roanoke has ordered an avowed white supremacist released on $25,000 bond, but prosecutors have appealed.
Judge Michael Urbanski today stayed his ruling allowing William A. White's release pending the appeal to U.S. District Court. But he ordered an electronic monitoring system to be installed at White's home.
White is charged with threatening a syndicated newspaper columnist, a New Jersey mayor and several other people by e-mail, telephone or online.
He has been in jail since last October, when he was charged with encouraging violence against the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist. A judge dismissed that charge in July.
White is the self-styled leader of a Roanoke-based neo-Nazi group.
-- The Associated Press
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