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Hate Crime
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“In June 1993, the United States Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Wisconsin's penalty-enhancement hate crimes statute, and the Wisconsin hate crime statute that was based on model legislation originally drafted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 1981. [Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (1993)].”
“The Anti-Defamation League model hate crimes legislation has been drafted to cover not just anti-Semitic crimes, but all hate crimes. The core of the ADL legal approach is a "penalty-enhancement" concept. Currently, 43 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws similar to or based on the ADL model, and almost every state has some form of legislation that can be invoked to redress bias-motivated crimes. B
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