1.   Assistant US Attorney Mark W. Pearlstein, chief of economic crimes prosecutions, said that Hersch took advantage of the nascent electronic filing system.

2.   Entrapment has become a common defense to the increasing number of sex crime prosecutions resulting from government sting operations on the Internet, where agents typically pose as children.

3.   Make it easier for the state to help cities and counties pay for hate crimes prosecutions.

4.   Prosecutions of juveniles comprise more than half of all hate crime prosecutions.

5.   Ashcroft also said federal prosecutors will step up gun crime prosecutions.