BOULDER, Colo.—A 23-year-old Boulder County man has been convicted of assault in a hate-crime case.
The Daily Camera reports that Joseph Owen Coy of Lafayette was convicted Thursday on felony charges of a bias-motivated crime and second-degree assault in an attack on a University of Colorado student from Nigeria last September. Coy faces up to 16 years in prison when he is sentenced June 3.
Coy’s attorney had attacked the credibility of a witness, who testified that he heard racial slurs during the assault.
Authorities say Coy and co-defendant Zachrey Harris yelled racial slurs at Olubiyi Ogundipe and his friend Ahmad Abdulkareem of Saudi Arabia.
The 23-year-old Harris was previously convicted of a misdemeanor charge of bias-motivated harassment and faces up to 18 months in jail.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
