Jason Clayworth is an investigative reporter at the Des Moines Register.
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Court records reviewed by the Register do not indicate that he has filed any further motions linked to his representation in the case. The burning of a Pride flag at a school in Mississauga is being investigated as a hate-motivated incident, Peel police say. He did not respond to a request for comment. Martinez is currently being held at the Iowa Medical & Classification Center correctional facility in Coralville. She said she believes Martinez was ultimately satisfied with his legal representation. Now the man who says it was his flag, wants to see charges in the. Marcucci said the case was assigned to her before the hate crime enhancement and before her supervisors were aware the case involved issues pertaining to sexuality. (KELO) A rural South Dakota man burned an LGBTQ flag while spouting obscenities about gay people on Facebook Live. Had he ordered the sentences to run concurrently, the incarceration would have totaled 15 years, a slight reduction. He did, however, order Martinez to serve the sentences consecutively.
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Van Marel under state sentencing law had little leeway when determining Martinez's penalty. If the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender) agenda were not a current cause clbre, I dont think it would excite such alarm. Surveillance footage shows a man intentionally setting fire to a pride flag hanging in. “I think it’s a very interesting issue in that the First Amendment right to freedom of expression covers things like burning the American flag, but burning the rainbow flag is something that was criminalized,” Marcucci told the Register this month. Police said Tuesday that 20-year-old Tyresse Singleton, of Harlem, is facing hate crime and arson charges.