Legislation
- Title
- Crimes – Mitigation – Race, Color, National Origin, Sex, Gender Identity, or Sexual Orientation
- Sponsored by
- Delegates Palakovich Carr, Moon, Acevero, Attar, Bartlett, Barve, Bridges, Cardin, Carr, Charkoudian, Cullison, D.M. Davis, Feldmark, Fraser-Hidalgo, Guyton, Kerr, R. Lewis, Lopez, Love, Mosby, Pena-Melnyk, Qi, Queen, Reznik, Shetty, Smith, Stewart, Terrasa, C. Watson, Wilkins, Anderson, Atterbeary, Cox, W. Fisher, and Williams
- Status
- In the Senate - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- Analysis
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)
Synopsis
Establishing that the discovery or perception of, or belief about, another person's race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation, whether or not accurate, does not constitute legally adequate provocation to mitigate a killing from the crime of murder to manslaughter or an assault from the crime of assault in the first degree to assault in the second degree or another lesser crime.
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- Opposite:
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2-207, 3-209 )
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