Posted on 11/24/2022 6:51:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Colorado Springs shooting suspect’s gender identity will not stop the authorities from bringing in hate crime charges against them, legal experts claim.
… The suspect’s gender identity is “not relevant," Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers and a former federal prosecutor, told Insider. "Obviously the defense will want to get it in, but it’s not a defense."
"It’s certainly something that the defense would try to use, but it’s not in and of itself a bar from hate crime charges depending on what the other evidence is," Brian Levin, professor of criminal justice at California State University, San Bernardino, was quoted as saying by the Insider.
"The notion that because someone might belong to a group does not mean that some ... dispute revolving around that group membership or issue would negate hate crime charges," he added.
Meanwhile, the court has ordered that the suspect be held in custody without bail.
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Only if the perps are registered Republicans. ;-)
You’d think if you killed people it’s driven by a degree of hate in your mind and heart.
“Hate crimes” are bullshit. Murder is murder, whatever the reason.
Hate crimes are what Orwell called thought crimes.
There was a movie called ‘Love Crimes’. Sean Young is naked in it.
Because he was oppressed by the white man.
Ask OJ. He said in an interview, if he did kill Nicole, he did it out of love. No word on how much he loved Ron Goldman.
A sexy Replicant...
He killed 5 people why would he care about an additional 10 years on a life sentence with no chance of parole?
A FICTIONAL conversation with his Defense Lawyer:
His lawyer may have asked him: “Bottom line, you’re going to be in prison from this point on. So, do you want Death Penalty or Life w/o parole? If Life w/o parole, you need to say you’re Non Binary. You just discovered it last night in the Hospital Recovery Room. It doesn’t matter that you hate them. That’s even better; “The blind rage of Self Hatred”.
You ‘identify as Non-Binary’. Say it! Use that phrase, word for word. They will have to accept your definition. Now, the LBGT’s will look at your bruises and empathize with you, your upbringing and such. Your Dad, the Porn Star.
These all amount to Extenuating Circumstances”.
“Hate” is a tool used to create division in the community. It is designed to stir up the crowd when it is filed. Stir up the emotion in the jury is the motive. If a person is charged with a “hate crime” by design it will take the focus off of the typical charge and onto the man! He’s a HATER and therefore he is GUILTY, GUILTY and GUILTY! He must pay because he is not “normal”! He is a HATER! All one has to do is look at the racial makeup of the hate charges that have been filed in the past to see what it is all about.
If Jesus was black, clearly the devil is too.
Meh we use to be… the great wars of the 20th century thinned our warrior genes.
“hate crime charges”.. What a joke...
Wonder if this guy knew Paul Pelosi?
Are we still in the RATS’ lawless “defund and fire the police mode”?
Yep. Millions of Alpha males down the tubes.
I don’t believe in fate or destiny, so we’ll see what the future holds.
Nowadays, technology is the greatest weapon.
It can be used against us, but also against “them”.
There is no indication that he prior to the shooting that he claimed to be nonbinary.
The nonbinary claim is simply a defense tactic to muddle the case.
The word identity no longer means what it used to mean. Identity meant what you are, not what you imagine you are. Today it means whatever your unstable mind tells you to think you are at the moment.
Just try this, at a traffic stop.
Officer says: “License and registration. What is your name?”
Subject: “I identify as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
Officer: “That’s not the name on your license. Come with me please.”
There is no reason to accept someone’s delusionary self-identification.
just get a firing squad together....these lengthly expensive trials are a waste of everyone’s time. it is NOT how the system is supposed to work...fair and speedy...
Just because he rapped about killing White People doesn’t mean it was a hate crime.........
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