{"id":5293,"date":"2004-10-27T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2021-06-10T03:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T03:03:10","slug":"georgia-court-throws-out-hate-crimes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/10\/27\/georgia-court-throws-out-hate-crimes-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Court Throws Out Hate Crimes Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fsnews.findlaw.com\/articles\/ap_stories\/other\/1110\/10-25-2004\/20041025090021_14.html\">Georgia Court Throws Out Hate Crimes Law<\/a><br \/>\nBy KRISTEN WYATT<br \/>\nASSOCIATED PRESS <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ATLANTA (AP) &#8211; The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state&#8217;s hate crimes law Monday, saying the measure is so broadly worded that it could even be used to prosecute a rabid sports for picking on somebody wearing a rival team&#8217;s cap. <\/p>\n<p>The 7-0 ruling came in the case of a white man and woman convicted of beating two black men in Atlanta. <\/p>\n<p>It was the first application of the 2000 law, which called for up to five extra years in prison for crimes in which the victim is chosen because of &#8220;bias or prejudice.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Court Throws Out Hate Crimes Law By KRISTEN WYATT ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) &#8211; The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state&#8217;s hate crimes law Monday, saying the measure is so broadly&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-hate-crimes-and-hate-groups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7003,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/7003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}