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Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:50

To Commit a Hate Crime, Must the
Criminal Truly Hate the Victim?

In her courtroom on the 21st floor of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn yesterday, Justice Jill Konviser-Levine sat and pondered the question of hate. “Bottom line,” Justice Konviser-Levine ruminated aloud, “is animus an element of the crime?” The crime in question was the killing of Michael J. Sandy, 29, a gay man who was lured to a parking area in Sheepshead Bay last October, beaten and chased into traffic. He later died in the hospital.

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