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Originally Posted by MysticCat
This is a very general desdription. Whether an offense actually qualifies as a hate crime will depend on the specific laws of the state where the offense occurred.
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Thank you, Mystic Cat for the clarification. The Chief Justice has spoken! I guess this is why the Feds are waiting for NJ to decide how to classify this case to proceed. Sad, any way you look at this. Clementi chose to end his life, but as we've seen in a plethora of cases over this year, not everyone is psychologically capable of withstanding bullying. In every case, it never ceases to amaze me how these people forget to live by the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I'm not even religious, but this is an amazingly useful tenet.