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Clifton Blackwell, the Milwaukee man charged with a hate crime in Wisconsin circuit court in 2019 for throwing acid on a US citizen born in Peru, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in state prison, court records show.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A judge sentenced a white Wisconsin man to a decade in prison Wednesday for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a racist attack
Clifton Blackwell admits he threw acid on the face of Mahud Villalaz in 2019 during an argument over a parking spot. It's now up to the jury to decide if he was acting in self-defense or if this was a hate crime.
Clifton Blackwell was charged with first-degree reckless injury as a hate crime.
Clifton Blackwell was charged with first-degree reckless injury as a hate crime.