A HATE crime? Nebraska Hate Crime statute:9-6-16 Nebraska:
Neb. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 28-110 (2010)
—A person in the State of Nebraska has the right to live free from violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against his or her person or the destruction or vandalism of, or intimidation by threat of destruction or vandalism of, his or her property regardless of his or her race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
Neb. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 28-111(2010)
—Imposes additional penalties on any person who commits one or more of the following criminal offenses against a person or a person's property because of the person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability or because of the person's association with a person of a certain race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability, unless such criminal offense is already punishable as a Class IB felony or higher classification.
A 30-year-old Lincoln man pleaded not guilty to breaking into a woman's home and sexually assaulting her.
Chad E. Drewes faces 10 felony charges, one of them filed as a hate crime, in connection with a home-invasion robbery June 24 at the woman's rural Seward County home, according to the criminal complaint.
Seward County District Judge James Stecker set his trial in January.
A 77-year-old Seward woman told deputies a shirtless man kicked in a side door to her garage and began strangling her, then bound her feet and hands and dragged her into a bedroom and raped her.
Afterward, she said, he untied her and told her to stay in the bathroom, as he ransacked her house.
Scared, the woman stayed in the bathroom for another hour after he left, then rested out of exhaustion before walking to a neighbor's house to report the attack around 6:30 a.m.
Sheriff's deputies working with police found Drewes near the woman's stolen SUV at Ninth and Court streets in Lincoln and arrested him on suspicion of the crime.
Prosecutors charged him with first-degree sexual assault, enhanced as a hate crime because of the victim's age, first-degree assault, robbery, theft by unlawful taking over $5,000, burglary, first-degree false imprisonment and several other felonies. ..Source.. by Lincoln Journal Star
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