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The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, enacted in 28 U.S.C. § 994 note Sec. 280003, requires the United States Sentencing Commission to increase the penalties for hate crimes committed on the basis of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or gender of any person.
Provides $5 million per year in funding for fiscal years 2010 through 2012 to help state and local agencies pay for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes; Requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track statistics on hate crimes based on gender and gender identity (statistics for the other groups were already tracked).
Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (1993), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that enhanced penalties for hate crimes do not violate criminal defendants' First Amendment rights. [1] It was a landmark precedent pertaining to First Amendment free speech arguments for hate crime legislation. [2]
A man who opened fire at a Muslim-owned tire shop in Dallas in 2015, killing one person, was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in prison on federal hate crime charges, authorities said. Anthony Paz ...
Victims filled a courtroom Thursday afternoon to see the sentencing of a man charged in a federal anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime case. Originally charged with a litany of crimes by Boise and Ada County ...
Brandon Elliot, 41, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in state prison. He had pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the first degree as a hate crime, and one count of criminal possession of ...
On March 21, 2012, he entered a guilty plea to murder and a federal hate crime charge. He was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences in prison. [16] During his sentencing, Dedmon apologized to Anderson's family. [9] On March 22, 2012, Dedmon, Rice, and Butler pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and conspiracy charges. [5]
An Indianapolis woman who stabbed an Asian student in her head multiple times has been sentenced to six years in prison for the hate crime. Billie Davis, 57, of Bloomington, Ind., will spend six ...