Legal Opinion
Wisconsin v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 1993No. 92-515PublishedCited by 523 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Respondent Todd Mitchell’s sentence for aggravated battery was enhanced because he intentionally selected his victim on account of the victim’s race. The question presented in this case is whether this penalty enhancement is prohibited by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. We hold that it is not.
On the evening of October 7,1989, a group of young black men and boys, including Mitchell, gathered at an apartment complex in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Several members of the group discussed a scene from the motion picture “Mississippi Burning,” in which a white man beat a young black boy who was…
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