Wisconsin v. Mitchell

Wisconsin v. Mitchell
Wisconsin v. Mitchell
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 1993; Decided June 11, 1993
Full case name	Wisconsin v. Todd Mitchell
Citations	508 U.S. 476 (more) 113 S. Ct. 2194; 124 L. Ed. 2d 436; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 4024; 61 U.S.L.W. 4575; 21 Media L. Rep. 1520; 93 Cal. Daily Op. Service 4314; 93 Daily Journal DAR 7353
Case history
Prior	Defendant convicted, Kenosha County Circuit Court; affirmed, 473 N.W.2d 1 (Wis. App. 1991); reversed, 485 N.W.2d 807 (Wis. 1992); cert. granted, 506 U.S. 1033 (1992)
Subsequent	On remand, affirmed, 504 N.W.2d 610 (Wis. 1993)
Holding
	Enhanced sentencing for bias-motivated crimes does not violate a defendant's First Amendment rights. Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed and remanded.
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun; John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. I; Wis. Stat. § 939.645

Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (1993), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that enhanced penalties for racially-motivated crimes do not violate criminal defendants' First Amendment rights.^[1] It was a landmark precedent pertaining to First Amendment free speech arguments for hate crime legislation.^[2] In effect, the Court ruled that a state may consider whether a crime was committed or initially considered due to an intended victim's status in a protected class.^[3]

References[]

^ Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476, 479 (1993).
^ Tina M. Fielding Fryling, Constitutional Law in Criminal Justice 10 (2014).
^ Thomas D. Brooks, First Amendment--Penalty Enhancement for Hate Crimes: Content Regulation, Questionable State Interests and Non-Traditional Sentencing, 84 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 703, 703 (1994).

External links[]

Text of Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (1993) is available from: Cornell CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)

This article related to the Supreme Court of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476, 479 (1993).

[2] Tina M. Fielding Fryling, Constitutional Law in Criminal Justice 10 (2014).

[3] Thomas D. Brooks, First Amendment--Penalty Enhancement for Hate Crimes: Content Regulation, Questionable State Interests and Non-Traditional Sentencing, 84 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 703, 703 (1994).

[1]

[2]

[3]

Wisconsin v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 1993 Decided June 11, 1993
Full case name	Wisconsin v. Todd Mitchell
Citations	508 U.S. 476 (more) 113 S. Ct. 2194; 124 L. Ed. 2d 436; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 4024; 61 U.S.L.W. 4575; 21 Media L. Rep. 1520; 93 Cal. Daily Op. Service 4314; 93 Daily Journal DAR 7353
Case history
Prior	Defendant convicted, Kenosha County Circuit Court; affirmed, 473 N.W.2d 1 (Wis. App. 1991); reversed, 485 N.W.2d 807 (Wis. 1992); cert. granted, 506 U.S. 1033 (1992)
Subsequent	On remand, affirmed, 504 N.W.2d 610 (Wis. 1993)
Holding
Enhanced sentencing for bias-motivated crimes does not violate a defendant's First Amendment rights. Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I; Wis. Stat. § 939.645

Wisconsin v. Mitchell

See also[]

References[]

External links[]