Locked up since Oct. 17, neo-Nazi leader William A. White will have to wait at least two more months before going on trial in Chicago.

A judge this week scheduled July 27 as the opening day for White's trial on a federal charge of using his Web site to encourage violence against the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist five years ago. The trial is expected to last a week.

White, commander of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, had asked that his trial be moved from Chicago to the Western District of Virginia.

The request was based in part on the argument that White was in Roanoke at the time he posted to his Web site, overthrow.com, personal information about a juror in the case of Matthew Hale, a white supremacist convicted of soliciting the murder of a federal judge.

U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman rejected that theory, noting in an opinion filed Wednesday that if White's intent was to encourage someone to harm the juror, the violence would have taken place in Chicago.

Even though White made no direct threats, prosecutors say he publicized the juror's home address and telephone numbers to an audience he knew was prone to racism and potential violence.

Defense attorneys have said that White meant no harm, and his online comments should be protected by the First Amendment.

White has a history of using his Web site to make veiled threats against people across the country, from then-presidential candidate Barack Obama to local NAACP officials. When a judge in Roanoke ordered him held without bond in October, he said it was White's own words that made him a potential danger to the community.

Adelman, who is from Milwaukee, was appointed to the case after a Chicago judge recused himself, based on White's inflammatory comments about another federal judge. In a separate post, White wrote that he was happy to hear in 2005 that Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother had been killed in their Chicago home. Federal prosecutors have included those comments, among others, as evidence of what they call White's pattern of advocating violence by members of his white supremacy movement.

Lefkow presided over Hale's trial, and White has suggested that federal prosecutors in the case might also be targeted. However, Adelman ruled Wednesday that was not enough to have prosecutors in Chicago removed from the case, as White had requested.

Once White's trial is completed in Chicago, he will return to Virginia to face more charges. In December, a federal grand jury in Roanoke indicted White on seven charges of threatening people across the country, including a banker, a newspaper columnist, a civil rights attorney and a small-town mayor.