In 1999 on this date in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit, Keenan v. Aryan Nations, against the racist hate group seeking monetary damages for its role in the shooting of a woman and her son. The civil rights activist group won, and Victoria Keenan and her son were awarded a $6 million judgment against the Aryan Nations and its leader, Richard Butler, who was forced to turn over the 20-acre compound to the Keenans. They sold it to a philanthropist who donated it to the North Idaho College Foundation and now the former hate group compound is a peace park.

A Wayne County (Michigan) jury believed the defense of Justin Andrew Wallace (DOB: July 4, 1983) whose lawyer successfully used the so-called "gay panic" defense at Wallace's trial for the May 15, 1999, shooting death murder of Alexander Charles. On this date in 2000, the jury convicted Wallace, 16, of Manslaughter and not First Degree Murder, believing Wallace's claim that the murder was a response to a sexual advance Mr. Charles made towards him and was not a premeditated crime. Mr. Charles, however, who was also 16 years of age at the time of his death, was not gay; indeed, Wallace's lawyer produced not one witness at the trial to corroborate his client's claim that Mr. Charles was gay or that he had ever made an advance toward someone of the same sex. Anthony Larson, one of the jurors in the case, later expressed regret about the verdict stating, "I'm just ashamed." Mr. Larson, the final hold-out juror for a First Degree Murder verdict, also said after the trial that during jury deliberations (which almost deadlocked) he was threatened with violence by another juror. He also said jurors bought the Wallace defense and that some of them indicated Mr. Charles got what he deserved for the unsubstantiated claim by Wallace that Mr. Charles tried to grope him while the two were in the woods. Evidence was brought to trial that Wallace had planned the slaying. The verdict raises frightening concerns that defense strategies that play on a jury's (or judge's) prejudice, bigotry and hate will continue to be used and used successfully in cases where the claimed or known sexual orientation of a crime victim is made focus of a trial. On May 20, 2002, Justin Wallace was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for Mr. Charles' murder and an additional two years for a felony firearms offense. Wallace, who is white, is serving his sentence at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, and he could be released from prison as early as May 28, 2011, at the age of 27, or as late as May 28, 2016.

In Tracy, California, on this date in 2008, a 14-year-old West High School student, was arrested and charged in juvenile court on hate crime charges after the male teenager threatened to burn a cross in the front yard of a former friend who is black and to kill his family. The teenager allegedly made eleven phone calls to the family and used call blocking to prevent the family from knowing where the calls had originated. However, police obtained a search warrant from the telephone provider and discovered where the threatening calls had been made. In the calls, the teenager claimed to be a Ku Klux Klan member. Because he is a minor, his name was not released.