“WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said federal prosecutors would have to prove the hate crime to charge Zimmerman, though.”
Oh, thanks for that brilliant analsis, sir. I never knew the burden of proof was on the prosecution before.
By the way, I don’t think you do have to prove anything to convict on a hate charge, actually. I don’t happen to think it’s possible to prove motive, which is one of the reasons why motive was never an element of crime before the Thought Police decided white people, and apparently hispanic-white people, deserved extra special punishment, and non-white people, but not hispanic people who are also white, are a protected class.
“hispanic-white people”
Make that “black-hispanic-white” people.
Now we have to go back to Neanderthal man to see what all is in everybody’s makeup...