A couple of amazing items in the article...
But university police said an investigation revealed that no one used racial epithets against the women. Instead, they assaulted another passenger and falsely reported the incident.
"What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in February. "The only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants."
Shaking my head at that one...
"Ms. Agudio, an exemplary young woman and an excellent student who has never previously been in legal trouble, asks that people not rush to judgment in this matter."
But we are supposed to rush to judgment when you make up lies about being attacked.
They should get the same sentence as someone who would have committed the same crime they made up.