WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (AP) — Two men convicted of a federal hate crime for beating and kicking a Mexican immigrant who died were each sentenced to nine years in prison.
Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky were among a group of white high school football players in the small town of Shenandoah who attacked 25-year-old Luis Ramirez in 2008. Prosecutors alleged they beat and kicked Ramirez because they didn't like Hispanics and wanted them out of their town.
A jury convicted Donchak and Piekarsky in October. The jury also convicted Donchak of two other counts related to a plot to cover up the beating. Both men were sentenced to nine years in prison in federal court on Wednesday in Wilkes-Barre. They could have gotten life sentences.
The defense cast Ramirez as the aggressor.
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