If they’d just robbed the guy...it’d be just assault and robbery charges. The minute they went to torture...it was a hate-crime, pure and simple.
Conviction possibility? Zero. This will cause the general public to go back and question the whole intent of hate-crimes and how the system won’t work as advertised.
“......the attack and torture was a hate crime.”......
“You going to believe what I said or what your lying eyes have seen?”
There is absolutely NO DOUBT, this WAS a HATE CRIME!