In a Madera County, California courtroom on this date in 2007, Donna Jean Hubbard, 46, was sentenced to 400 hours of community service and three years probation on weapons possession charges in a plea bargain agreement that allowed her to avoid being tried for a hate crime. The former
Duncan Polytechnic High School teacher had previously reached a plea deal, which she had said was done to avoid losing her teaching credential, to have hate crime and gang enhancement charges dropped. She was alleged to have assaulted a Jewish woman and to have yelled racial slurs during the alleged attack. Hubbard was found to have illegal weapons and Ku Klux Klan items in her home, which led to the weapons charges for which she was found guilty.
On this date in 2007 in Columbia, South Carolina state representative J. Seth Whipper, a Democrat representing District 113 in Charleston County and an African-American attorney, introduced a hate crimes bill (H3738), and by April 10, 2007, it was co-sponsored by twelve other state representatives, ten of them African-American and all of them Democrats. These co-sponsors were representatives: Karl B. Allen, Carl L. Anderson, Curtis Brantley, Floyd Breeland, Bill Clyburn, Lonnie Hosey, Joseph H. Jefferson, Douglas Jennings, Jr., David J. Mack III, J. Todd Rutherford, Leon Stavrinakis, and Robert Q. Williams. The bill, if passed into law, would provide penalties for those convicted of crimes based on religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or sexual orientation, and the wording of the bill would also include transgendered individuals in that sexual orientation is defined in Whipper's bill as "a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender identity or expression."
On this date in 2010, statues, a sign, and the Phuoc Hau Temple itself were spray-painted for the second time in two weeks with anti-Buddhist hate-messages and expletives. This hate-crime attack is the fifth time in five years that the Buddhist temple located at 8510 Old Third Street Road in Louisville, Kentucky has been vandalized.
In Berlin, Wisconsin on this date in 2010, Wayne W. Greening, 35, assaulted a 73-year-old Jehovah's Witness who was prosthelytizing door-to-door in Greening's neighborhood with several other Jehovah's Witnesses. Greening confessed to police that he punched the woman in the face and, after she hit the ground, he said he punched her several time in her head. Found laying on the ground covered in blood by the police, the victim was taken to the Berlin Memorial Hospital and treated for her injuries. Wayne Greening also told police he believed the Jehovah's Witness religion was illegal and that followers believed in the devil, and that he assaulted his victim because he was scared and because he did not want people coming to his home and attempting to change his religion. Wayne Greening was found guilty in the Green Lake County Circuit Court on July 2, 2010, of felony aggravated battery against an elderly person as a religious-based hate crime. Instead of being sentenced to prison, however, Greening was committed to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for eight years after the judge ruled Greening had suffered from a mental illness or mental defect at the time of the attack and that his mental illness/mental defect reduced his capacity to control himself at that time.
In Eugene, Oregon (Lane County) near the University of Oregon in the late evening on this date in 2010, a 33-year-old Jewish man was assaulted allegedly by two men. Two hours later the Jewish man was attacked a second time and had anti-Semitic slurs hurled at him allegedly by the same two men—Gary Lee Kehm, 32, and Michael David "Sweat Pea" Rister, 34, a homeless artist. Two men allegedly punched and kicked the victim and, during the second assault, also shouted anti-Semitic slurs at him. Gary Kehm was charged by police with second-degree assault, third-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, and first-degree intimidation (a hate crime). However, Lane County prosecutors chose to charge Kehm only with third-degree assault. Michael Rister was charged with second-degree assault after turning himself in to police.