I'm not hearing my favorite charge...."hate crime". Or is that only a one way thing?

What about attempted murder....hitting someone in the head with a baseball bat is more than an attempt at getting someone's attention.

It wasn't a hate crime, it was mistaken identity over a comment made regarding a female. Which none of the victims had anything to do with. I wish they would throw the book at them and charge them with charges to put them away for a long time. Fences wouldn't keep these animals out either.

Didn't you hear, camera's are a bad thing, they are an invasion of privacy by "the man."

a fence? You mean, like the one they have along the Mexico border? Because that does such a good job of keeping all of the illegals out....I was thinking more along the lines of napalm....concentrated mostly in the southeast section of town....then you can eventually turn it into a commuter parking lot....
jk!

Because attempted murder requires the prosecution to prove intent. They have to prove to a jury that by hitting the victim with the bat, the defendant intended to kill. All the defense has to do is have the defendant testify that he only intended to disable the vicim and rob him, not kill him.
Agg. Assualt is still a felony and pretty much a slam dunk; no need to prove intent. The DA just has to prove that the assault occured and the defendant did it.

edit: spelling