An act of ethnic intimidation cannot be negated simply because a defendant acted with other motivating factors during the course of an attack, the state Supreme Court ruled.

The apparent issue of first impression came in Commonwealth v. Sinnott , a case in which defendant Daniel Sinnott confronted his former employer’s daughter with a power drill, hammer, and a racially charged verbal onslaught.

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