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April 08, 2009 03:43 AM UTC
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I will spark up a candle!
While I’m totally sympathetic to the poster’s concerns and support gay marriage, etc., I do wonder whether the community is exploiting her murder for its own benefit?
And is the community making it harder for the defendant to get a fair trial, which is a concern reported in the Post today?
Wouldn’t it have been fairer to have conducted this campaign, which includes newspaper ads, after the trial?
…even though you know it’s true if you actually read the Post article today, the ads were not run in those communities from which the jury will be selected. Hell, the ad wasn’t even run in the Post, out of an abundance of caution. I wonder if your omission was intentional? Hmmmm
I failed to note that the ads weren’t run in Ft. Collins or Greeley and that nevertheless prosecutors are worried that the ads will make a fair trial more difficult.
I think that covers it?
For the first time I am in agreement with you 100%.
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How is prosecuting a killer for a hate crime better than prosecuting them for murder ?
What’s the advantage ?
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you are still charged with murder but the added “hate” makes your sentence harder.
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once I read that, it was obvious.
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Murder is not the only Hate Crime, although it is the one always focused on. Destroying or damaging one or several places of worship with the intent to send a message to the followers of that religion is a hate crime. By prosecuting it as a hate crime the penalty can be increased.
I’d think juries would be more careful about convicting people of hate crimes because of the tougher sentencing guidelines.
Are there any relevant stats?
Why do hate crime laws make sense when current sentences for using and selling drugs don’t?
Just wondering.
….because it’s irrelevant to their proper consideration and could lead to improper analysis, as your question highlights.
In any event, I’ve read a fair amount of newspapers accounts of the Zapata killing, and the charging, etc. I have not read anything that confirms the speculation on here that a hate crime conviction in CO increases the sentence given for another crime. Instead, a hate crime is a separate crime in itself, with its own sentence. In Zapata’s case, the defendant was charged with both murder and a hate crime. So the jury is free to consider the hate crime charge separately from the other charge.
It could totally acquit.
Or it convict on murder or hate crime or vice versa.
So let’s hang him twice, I guess?