| sapphi_snake said: I stopped reading after that word. Commiting a crime unintentionally leads to totally different legal outcome. There is no such thing as an unintentional hate crime. Like MrBubbles said, you can't accidentally hate someone. You should also know that prosecuters rarely try to charge someone with a hate crime if they don't have solid evidence that the primary motive was hate. A hate crime is all about the motive, not about the act or who the victim is. Beating up someone who is black isn't a hate crime, if all you wanted was to steal his wallet. Similarly, beating up a straight guy because you think he's gay and you hate gay people is still a hate crime. |
Okay, I just remember a case while going to Texas Tech that 2-3 teenagers slightly ransacked a church or Synagogue (forget which one) and people were debating whether to charge them with hate crime when it clearly wasn't the case. It just seems that some incidents aren't so clear to some prosecutors. Now your explanation sounds pretty defined and I can see that you wouldn't be confused on which type of crime was committed. However, some other people might.
