The associates of The Fountains at Franklin, a
continuing care retirement community, wish everyone a

ment, Albright
will gather
information
about the status
of the negotia-
tions. And —
she hopes — to
set the stage for
a summit early
next year to
hammer out
Madeleine Albright:
the details of a
Information gathering.
"framework"
agreement on final-status issues.
Said an Israeli source: "Albright's
job is to assess all the different levels
to the negotiations and try to deter-
mine what Washington has to do to
push both sides forward toward an
ultimate summit."
Administration officials were keep-
ing a low profile on another develop-
ment on the peace front — Russian
President Boris Yeltsin will visit the
West Bank in January — and Yasser
Arafat has asked him to take on a
greater role in pressing the peace talks.

High Noon For Hate?

The Supreme Court agreed on
Monday to hear a New Jersey case that
the justices could use to make a minor
technical correction in some state hate
crimes laws — or, to set new guide-
lines for statutes that mandate more
severe penalties for criminals whose
motives involve racial, religious or eth-
nic bigotry.
The review will provide a forum for
the promoters of such legislation, led
by the Anti-Defamation League :—
and opponents, who say enhanced
penalty statutes are legal abomina-
tions.
The case involves a New Jersey man
convicted of firing shots into the
home of a black family in a mostly
white neighborhood in 1994. Charles
Apprendi, a pharmacist, told police he
did it to send a message to the black
family — an admission he later said
was made under duress — and was
sentenced to a 12-year sentence. That
was two years longer than the maxi-
mum sentence for a firearms violation;
the added time was imposed under the
state's hate crimes law because the
shooting seemed motivated by racial
hatred.
The New Jersey Supreme Court
upheld Apprendi's sentence in June.
But under New Jersey's law, the judge
makes the determination of a hate
motive, not a jury; that's the legal
technicality around which this case
revolves. 7

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Greater Detroit Section

12/3
1999

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