DA: Hate crime charge appropriate in baseball bat beating case

ATLANTA - A 19-year-old Morehouse College student accused of beating another student with a baseball bat will be prosecuted under Georgia&#39;s hate crime law, District Attorney Paul Howard said. <br> <br> Howard said Thursday prosecutors will announce at the arraignment for Aaron Price that they will seek an enhanced penalty that could add as much as five years to a sentence. Anyone convicted under the hate crime law also has to serve 90 percent of the sentence. <br> <br> Price was indicted on aggravated assault and aggravated battery charges in the Nov. 3 attack. The sophomore was expelled from school and is free on $10,000 bail. <br> <br> Gregory Love, a junior, told police he wasn&#39;t wearing his glasses when he went into his dormitory bathroom to take a shower. Love said he looked into Price&#39;s stall because he mistakenly thought Price was his roommate. Price said he thought Love was making a sexual advance. <br> <br> Police said Price left the shower and retrieved a bat to beat Love, who has been recovering from a fractured skull.