White Man Gets 15 Years for Hate-Crime Beating
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From Times Wire Reports
A white man who pummeled a black man with a baseball bat was sentenced to 15 years in a hate-crime case that focused on the defendant’s use of a racial slur.
Nicholas Minucci, 20, was convicted last month of second-degree assault as a hate crime for the 2005 beating in Queens. The victim, 23-year-old Glenn Moore, suffered a fractured skull.
“This had nothing to do with race,” Minucci said. “This had to do with me going to defend a friend.”
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