Here's another case where Ashcroft is not acting as those who blindly and ideologicly prefer to stereotype him. It's those pesky facts intruding on the DNC/media image again.

WASHINGTON (AP) Law enforcement authorities believe they solved the nearly 6-year-old case of two female hikers slain in a federal park, based in part on statements a man made while serving time on another charge.
The indictment charged Rice, a former computer programmer, with capital murder and with intentionally selecting and murdering the victims ''because of the actual or perceived gender or sexual orientation.''
The government is prepared to present evidence that ''the defendant's killing of the two women was part of an ongoing plan, scheme or modus operandi to assault, intimidate, injure and kill women because of their gender,'' according to court filings
Rice was charged with four counts of capital murder. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that if convicted of any of the charges, Rice could face the death penalty.
''The volatile, poisonous mixture of hatred and violence will not go unchallenged in the American system of justice,'' said Ashcroft, after meeting with the families of the victims.

-p (so easy to demonize, so hard to be objective)