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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (111689)5/23/2009 9:13:53 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541368
 
An assault is an assault, the motivation for it not the issue.

Quite the contrary, the law recognizes multiple degrees of assault, manslaughter and murder based largely on motivation, intent, predeliberation and so on. If society says that an assault motivated by bigotry is worse than one without, and all defendants facing assault charges are subjected to the same bigotry standard, equal protection has applied.

Has any court said otherwise?
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