A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging​ her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.

  • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Is it still a hate crime if they were wrong about the person’s identity? Imo it should be.

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      11 months ago

      IIRC NY is a transfer of intent state, that is to say if you intended to kill X person but fucked up and killed Y person instead, you’re still guilty of 1st degree murder, because you still intended to do a murder