... their race, sex, ethnicity, disability, and/or beliefs. In most cases, hate crimes are committed by the majority against the minority. Hate crimes range from vandalism or defacing property to rape or homicide, but in every case, someone gets hurt. According to the National Crime Reports in 1998, a total of 7,755 bias motivated criminal incidents were reported to the FBI from ... that outside influence has on an individual. Another survey was performed in California shortly after the crucifixion-style killing of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. Shepard was killed because he was gay. In this a...

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... factors within the transmission of the virus that have to be looked at. The first person to go to court under these laws in Michigan was Jeffrey Hanlon. Hanlon was a gay man who infected another man from Michigan while he was in New York. The American Civil Liberties Union, who agreed to take the case, argued that the AIDS disclosure law ... . They argued that the privacy guaranteed to us in the Constitution applies to the AIDS virus as well. Opponents argued that "they're [those with AIDS] killing people. It's like rape." The maximum sentence Hanlon could have received was four years in...

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