GRAND HAVEN, MI - A jury Wednesday afternoon convicted recent GOP primary candidate Brandon Michael Hall of committing felony election fraud while working for a different candidate.

About 1 p.m. Nov. 30, Hall was found guilty by a jury on 10 counts of election fraud, according to staff at Muskegon County's 20th Circuit Court.

The Michigan Attorney General's Office prosecuted Hall for forging signatures on nominating petitions he circulated for a judicial candidate in 2012.

"The verdict speaks for itself," said Andrea Bitely, spokeswoman for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.

In a phone interview Wednesday night, Hall said he planned to appeal the case, on grounds that he objected to the jury instructions.

"We're absolutely going to have the Court of Appeals take a look at it," he said, noting that his case previously won a motion in appeals.

Prior to trial, Hall had appealed to have the charges dismissed on grounds they didn't reach the level of a felony, but the Michigan Supreme Court in April 2016 ultimately upheld the charges.

Hall worked as a petition circulator during Chris Houghtaling's unsuccessful campaign for Ottawa County District Court judge in 2012.

"From the very beginning, I've tried to cooperate with the state, and I've admitted to aspects of the case," Hall said. "I certainly don't deny playing a role in the situation."

Hall's sentencing has been set for 1 p.m. Dec. 27 in Grand Haven Circuit Court. Felony election fraud is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Although the charges stem from a 2012 incident, Hall has remained active in politics up until quite recently.

Earlier this year, he ran for State Representatives, facing two other Republican candidates for the 89th District seat held by the term-limited Amanda Price. Hall gathered 872 votes, just 8 percent of the total in the Aug. 2 primary election. Jim Lilly, a banker and graduate student, won the primary election and later the Nov. 8 general election.

Hall runs a political blog, West Michigan Politics. In recent years, he has run for political office several times, occasionally brushing with the law.

In 2010, Hall was a Grand Haven School Board Member when $750 when missing from an elementary school's T-shirt sale to benefit a national charity. Hall was convicted of stealing and sentenced to two years of probation.

Hall was also once the subject of a campaign finance complaint from a City Council candidate that his political action committee endorsed, the Grand Haven Tribune reported.