LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Eric Ward, a self-described animal-rights activist, was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, after participating in an animal-rights demonstration in Magna, Utah in November 1999. The charge was contemporaneously elevated to a felony under Utah's hate-crimes statute. Both the felony enhancement and the underlying disorderly-conduct charge were dismissed a few weeks later. Ward then brought the instant suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983...
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