Perhaps it reflects what a fuzzy concept "hate crime" is?
At 10:09 AM 12/7/05 -0800, you wrote:
Thanks very much, but this update seems quite mysterious -- does
anyone know *why* the attack is now not labeled a hate crime? Is it
because the police didn't believe that the attack was motivated by his
decision to teach the anti-ID class? Or because such a motivation
wouldn't make the crime be, in their view, "motivated entirely or in
part by the . . . religion . . . of the victim . . . [or] the
defendant's belief or perception, entirely or in part, of the . . .
religion . . . of the victim"?
Eugene
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For those who care, an update:
http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/dec/07/ne_mirecki/
Seems like there might be more to this story.
Luke Meier
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law
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Shameful and shocking. This is the story as it appeared in the KU
campus newspaper.
http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/dec/06/mirecki/
I completely agree with the following quote from the article:
Sen. Kay O'Connor (R-Olathe), who has strongly criticized Mirecki for
his e-mails, said whoever beat him should be "prosecuted to the
fullest."
"If they try to cover themselves under the mantle of being Christian or
being Christian people, sorry Charlie," she said. "They're just thugs."
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