Steven Magritz (right) is shown in January of 2003 when he was sentenced to five years in prison for filing a blizzard of false legal papers against a number of Ozaukee County officials. Thirteen years later, Magritz was back in court, sentenced to more than a year in prison again for a similar action. Since being in custody in September Magritz has refused to allow jailers to take his photograph. Credit: Journal Sentinel files

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Port Washington — A 70-year-old man with a long-standing legal grudge against Ozaukee County government was sentenced Thursday to 11/2 years in prison for what a prosecutor called acts of paper terrorism.

It's the second time Steven A. Magritz will go to prison for his unceasing efforts to get even with county officials.

Ozaukee County foreclosed on Magritz's 62.5-acre Town of Fredonia homestead in August 2001 for nonpayment of about $30,000 in back taxes.

Magritz retaliated by filing involuntary bankruptcy petitions and other bogus legal documents against 36 county officials, including false liens alleging they owed him $15 million. He was charged in 2002, convicted and sentenced to five years in prison and 18 months of extended supervision.

But according to Ozaukee District Attorney Adam Gerol, as soon as he was off supervision, Magritz filed another bogus deed to cloud the title of the land and he was charged again with the same offense — formally, criminal slander of title — in 2011.

When he got the summons to appear, Magritz sent it back, stamped in red, "Refused for fraud." Officials then put out a warrant for his arrest but Magritz went off the grid until last fall, when deputies who stopped a car that Magritz was in ran his name and the warrant came up. Magritz has been in the Ozaukee County Jail ever since and was given credit for 143 days served against his sentence.

Gerol said Magritz refused a pre-sentence report, or even to be fingerprinted or photographed, as part of his "sovereign citizen" ideology that rejects the authority of society's laws.

Magritz's only words at sentencing were that he has not and will never consent to the proceedings. "I demand to be set at liberty immediately," he said.

Circuit Judge Sandy Williams, who presided over Magritz's trial last year, where he represented himself, reminded him "the jury didn't buy your beliefs. It was just gibberish."

As a condition of his extended supervision, Magritz can't file any court papers or send letters to any public officials without approval from his probation officer.

All but seven acres of Magritz's former land, immediately north of Hawthorne Hills County Park, is within a forested corridor along the Milwaukee River.