Sentence is 11 years for hate crime crash
Maybee also fined, told to pay restitution
Posted: September 29, 2011 at 3:55 a.m.
Conner Eldridge, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, speaks outside the federal courthouse in Harrison on Wednesday following the sentencing of Frankie Maybee, one of the first two people convicted of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
Frankie Maybee was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for a federal hate crime, but he told the judge that when he rammed a car with five Hispanic men off a road in Carroll County last year, his actions weren’t based on “hate.” “I’ve never been in this [type of] situation, especially not for being hateful,” Maybee said during his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Harrison.
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