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Penalty for Bias-Motivated Crimes
On June 11, 1993, the United State Supreme Court upheld
Wisconsin's penalty enhancement law, which imposes harsher sentences on criminals who "intentionally select the person against whom the crime...is committed..because of the race, religion, color,
disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry of that
person." Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the
unanimous Court. This paper argues against the decision, and will
attempt to prove the unconstitutionality of such penalty enhancement
laws.
On the evening of October 7, 1989, Mitchell and a group of
young black men attacked and severely beat a lone white boy. The
group had just finished watching the film "Mississippi Burning", in
which a young black boy was, while praying, beaten by a white man.
After the film, the group moved outside and Mitchell asked if they
felt "hyped up to move on some white people". When the white boy......

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