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Hate crimes law used to prosecute Amish beard attacks

By Tracy Gordon — March 21, 2012

(RNS) A pair of scissors transported across state lines in a series of beard-cutting attacks on the Amish have emerged as a controversial element in Ohio's first case under a landmark 2009 federal law that expanded government powers to prosecute hate crimes. By Harlan Spector.

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