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IN RE M.S.

Docket No. S035200.

10 Cal.4th 698 (1995)

896 P.2d 1365

42 Cal. Rptr.2d 355

In re M.S., a Minor. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. M.S., Defendant and Appellant. In re A.G., a Minor. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. A.G., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 3, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Stewart C. Pollack, Jean Allan, under appointments by the Supreme Court, Jeff Brown, Public Defender, and Donna Teshima, Deputy Public Defender, for Defendants and Appellants.

John T. Philipsborn, Dennis P. Riordan, Linda F. Robertson, Katzoff & Riggs, Robert R. Riggs, Frye & Alberts and E. Lynn Machow as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias, Clifford K. Thompson and Joanne S. Abelson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Stephen Hankins, Robert E. Borton, Diane T. Chin, Joshua B. Baker, Angelo N. Ancheta, Doreena P. Wong, Kathryn K. Imahara, Stanley Mark, Elizabeth R. OuYang, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Dean Hansell, Aaron C. Gundzik, Alex Fukui, Lisa A. Anderson, Edward M. Chen, Matthew A. Coles, Paul Hoffman, Erwin Chemerinsky, Mary Ellen Gale, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Joyce M. Norcini, Robert J. Thyken, Jr., Ruth L. Lansner, Steven M. Freeman, Tzivia Schwartz, Barbara H. Bergen, Brian Levin, J. Richard Cohen, Richard Nakamura, Dysart & Dubick and Sherri A. Groveman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

This case requires us to address various constitutional challenges to Penal Code sections 422.6 and 422.7, two of California's "hate crime" statutes.1 The juvenile court found that M.S. and A.G., the minors, violated section 422.6 by their actions in the course of a melee early one morning in the Castro District of San Francisco and further found true

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