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The enhancement aspect is jurisdiction-specific. I should have added "federal" in front. Most often when we hear about hate crimes, it is regarding a separate
by jnwatson 9y ago
The enhancement aspect is jurisdiction-specific. I should have added "federal" in front.
Most often when we hear about hate crimes, it is regarding a separate federal case, prosecuted independently from the local or state case.
- gizmo686 9y agoAh, that makes sense. Still, this is a more general issue that hate crimes. Each state (and the federal government) are considered separate entities, which means that double jeopardy does not prohibit being tried for the same crime multiple times, so long as you are being tried by different states (or the federal government). It is not nessasary to have a hate crime for this principle to be invoked. It is also not unreasonable by modern standards to disagree with this; it is just an odditiy of the American legal system that most people never think about.