Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has convicted Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak, both of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, of a hate crime arising out of the fatal beating of Luis Ramirez. The jury found the defendants guilty of violating the criminal component of the federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it a crime to use a person’s race, national origin or ethnicity as a basis to interfere, with violence or threats of violence, with a person’s right to live where he chooses to live. In addition, the jury found that Donchak conspired to, and did in fact, obstruct justice.
