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Unread 10 Sep 2007, 18:00   #15
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Re: West Virginia and Homophobia
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Originally Posted by Phang
If we're working on the basis that hate crimes are unprovoked and premeditated, the punishment should be more severe anyway - so far as I understand it's mostly a protection against bigoted judges/juries
The point of hate crime legislation isn't "to cover up one of the problems with jury trials", not on the slightest.


Hate crime legislation was introduced by the Government for two main reasons: to ensure that racism is always an aggravating factor, and to get rid of judges' sentencing discretion in this respect.
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