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Jury finds Ill. man guilty of hate crime in Puerto Rican flag shirt incident

CHICAGO - An Illinois man was found guilty Wednesday on two felony hate crime counts for berating and questioning the citizenship of a woman who was wearing a shirt emblazoned with a design of the Puerto Rican flag while preparing to celebrate her birthday at a Cook County forest preserve.

A jury at the Cook County courthouse in Skokie deliberated for about 3 1/2 hours before finding Timothy Trybus of Des Plaines guilty.

Trybus hung his head and wept after the verdict was read, a demeanor strikingly different than the one portrayed in a

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