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Hate Crime
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Hate Crime in Texas
CNN Is reporting that white teens accused of brutal racist attack Hispanic boy left for dead in Spring, Texas. Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asian American Victims of Hate Crimes
Nationwide, Asian American students say they're often beaten, threatened and called ehtnic slurs by other young people, and school safety data suggest that the problem may be worsening. Youth advocates…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Arrests in Beatings of Latino Immigrants
CNN reports that two men have been arrested for the brutal attacks on Latino immigrants in Tifton in south Georgia http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/georgia.killings.ap/index.html The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the suspects were African…
CrimProf Blog
CrimProf Muller Discusses Enahanced Penalties for Hate Crimes
CrimProf Eric Muller of North Carolina argues in his blog Is That Legal? that sentencing enhancements for hate crimes are appropriate. He provides the following analogy to support his argument…
CrimProf Blog
Shepard Case
The killers of Matthew Shepard are now denying that it was an anti-gay hate crime, and claiming it was a meth-fueled rampage; the gay panic defense was cooked up. North…
CrimProf Blog
FBI Says Number of Hate Crimes Rose in 2003
MSNBC.com reports that:"More than 7,400 hate crime incidents occurred nationwide last year, more than half of them motivated by racial prejudice, most often against black people, the FBI reported Monday.Hate…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The vagaries and vagueness of hate crime sentencing
Main October 26, 2004The vagaries and vagueness of hate crime sentencingToday in Botts v. Georgia, S04A0798 and Pisciotta v. Georgia, S04A0799 (Ga. Oct. 25, 2004) (available here), the Georgia Supreme…