Justice Deferred: Federal Authorities Say 1994 Murder of Ari Halberstam Would Now Be Prosecuted as a Hate Crime

Justice Deferred: Federal Authorities Say 1994 Murder of Ari Halberstam Would Now Be Prosecuted as a Hate Crime

Justice Deferred: Federal Authorities Say 1994 Murder of Ari Halberstam Would Now Be Prosecuted as a Hate Crime By: Max Schleifer More than three decades after the brutal killing of Jewish teenager Ari Halberstam shocked New York City and reverberated throughout the Jewish community, federal prosecutors have issued a striking and consequential acknowledgment: under today’s legal framework, the attack would be prosecuted as a federal hate crime. …