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Article: Legal Study Finds The Capital's Hate Crime Statute "Underused"
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- March 4, 1994
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Samuel R. Cacas
AsianWeek
03-04-1994
Legal Study Finds The Capital's Hate Crime Statute "Underused".
By Samuel R. Cacas
WASHINGTON (DC) -- A hate crime statute has been on the books in the nation's capital for four years, but there have been no criminal prosecutions made using it's provisions. This and the opinion that more police and prosecutors are needed to make the statute useful are conclusions in a study prepared by the law firm Covington & Burling at the behest of the local Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
But a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the capital said that the office has used the statute at least once that he remembered. A police department spokesman ...