A divided appellate panel on Wednesday reversed the convictions of 16 members of an Ohio Amish community who engaged in a series of hair-shearing and beard-cutting assaults against followers of the faith three years ago.

A jury convicted all 16 members of the Bergholz community of at least one violation of the Hate Crime Prevention Act, which prohibits “willfully causing bodily injury to any person … because of the actual or perceived … religion … of that person.”

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