The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that juries, not judges, must decide whether harsher sentencing should apply to hate crimes cases. The 5-4 decision answers a procedural question, since in most states with some type of hate- crime law there is already the specification that a jury must decide whether a defendant was motivated by bias.
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