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Originally Posted by NobodyHere
That was kind of Neil's point, that we'll respond to spectacle instead of scientific data.
Also tell me which party you think I support?
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Idk if you support the Republican Party, but based off your posts in the political threads I'd say you're either anti-Democrat or you're a troll. I fall in the same category, but I'll call a spade a spade.
And yeah, I have no idea why NDT would choose to tweet that. I don't think he's a big gun rights supporter and it's not the first time he's made an esoteric point in the wrong place, but he has to be smart enough to understand that's not the time and place for that.
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Originally Posted by molson
"Hate crime" is kind of misleading, they're often just an additional intent element added to an existing crime to enhance the sentence or enhance the seriousness of the charge. No crime punishes JUST motive, but many criminal statutes have a required intent element - intent to permanently deprive, intent to cause injury, etc.
In this case, I think it's probably a death penalty predicate, something a jury has to find in addition to the committed crime in order to impose death. Of course, there's probably a bunch of predicates here, but prosecutors will generally charge with all the crimes and enhancements and predicates that the evidence can support, you never know what gets fucked up by a bad jury instruction or a piece of evidence that should have been excluded. And it'd be weird here if they randomly excluded that predicate which obviously applies.
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Originally Posted by JPhillips
This is much more your area of expertise than mine. I just don't like the idea of some actions being worse than others based on motive. Shooting someone in the face should have the same punishment as shooting someone in the face because they don't like their race or gender or sexuality or religion.
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Plus, you know, it's Texas. I doubt they need to worry about juries or the state supreme court being ready to throw out a death penalty conviction due to sentiment or a technicality.