Prison Sentences for Three in Idaho Hate Crime Assault

A federal judge sentenced three Idaho men to time in prison for the hate crime beating of a black man outside a Nampa Wal-Mart. Judge Edward Lodge sentenced twenty-three-year-old Michael Bullard to at least four years in prison, twenty-four-year-old Richard Armstrong to at least three, and twenty-three-year-old James Whitewater to a year and a half.

Bullard and Armstrong were convicted in July. Whitewater pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate rights before the case went to trial. Prosecutors say the three plotted an attack against Raylen Smith, who was twenty-four at the time, after seeing him in the aisle of a Wal-Mart. The three beat him until he blacked out.

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