That would make sense. Background evidence.
Normally, motive is not an element of a crime but in hate crimes it becomes an element.
Of course, direct evidence would be epithets, hate paraphenalia... but its usually not that easy.
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Originally posted by PornoDoggy
Well, if James Earl Whosits has been boasting to his friends that he's going to "Go find him a [???] and mess them up", which has often been the situation, then you've got a case. I'm not sure that the use of epithets in the course of the fight itself are even evidence, because a lot of things get said in the heat of battle, so to speak.
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