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...assault of a gay undergraduate last year—which had at one point mobilized hundreds of students, impelled prosecutors to push for two hate-crime convictions, and prompted a dean to pledge that administrators “are not sweeping this under the rug”—ended quietly last week, having lost its steam after 17 months of legal sluggishness...
Defendant Timothy J. Kelleher was ultimately found guilty of assault and battery but not with “intent to intimidate”—Mass. state law’s way of describing a crime motivated by hate. And the case against a second man, who reportedly told the victim that, “We’ll follow you all the way back to your apartment, you fucking Jewish faggot,” was dropped, at the urging of the prosecutor...
...failure to find Kelleher guilty of “intent to intimidate” has shed light on a phenomenon that several attorneys and criminal law professors say is a reality in the legal system today: Perhaps easy to prosecute in the court of public opinion, hate crimes are just much too difficult to prosecute in a court...
...HIGH BURDEN OF HATE...
...more frequent IT users than their colleagues in smaller practices. Eric G. Campbell, an assistant professor at the Institute for Health Policy and a co-author of the study, did not find the results to be indicative of a problem in the medical profession. “I personally hate e-mail,” Campbell said. “In today’s electronic culture, we assume that if a technology is widely used, it is better. But in the medical profession, e-mail can be both impersonal and problematic.” Few health insurance companies compensate...