After pleading guilty to three felony counts of retaliating against a judge, 49-year-old Eric Brandt was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said.

Brandt faced a maximum sentence of 18 years in prison for the three counts. As part of his plea agreement, multiple cases against Brandt over a one-year period across three counties were consolidated.

The first retaliation incident happened on Dec. 18, 2018, involving a Denver County judge. The second, on Nov. 19, 2019, was with a Jefferson County judge. And the third was on Dec. 2 and 3, 2019, with an Adams County judge, judicial assistant and sheriff’s deputy.

During the first incident, Brandt was present at a Dec. 18 court hearing involving a member of an environmental activist group.

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Brandt and his other group members yelled, screamed and intimidated jurors to try to influence their decision. The judge then ordered the group to be removed, leading to the arrest of two of Brandt’s associates.

About an hour after being removed, Brandt called the judge’s judicial assistant, asking that they pass on the following message:

“It is my thought that the judge should be violently murdered and his brains splattered all over the face of his children. And it’s my prayer that some (expletive) actually does it. Kill, kill, kill, all judges should die,” Brandt said, according to the district attorney’s office.

The next day, Brandt posted the judge’s home address online in a video calling for protests there.

Two days later, Brandt posted another video saying he was going to go to the judge’s parents’ house to talk.

In another video, Brandt said the judge would “look best hanging from a tree,” according to the district attorney’s office.

Police provided extra patrols around the judge’s home because of Brandt’s threats.

In addition to resolving the Denver case, Brandt pleaded guilty to harassment in the Jefferson County and Adams County cases. As part of the plea, two other Jefferson County cases were dismissed.

Previously, Brandt was charged with seven counts of jury tampering for a July 27, 2015, incident in which he set up a booth outside of Denver’s Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse and handed out fliers on jury nullification to the jurors.