Michael Bullard and Richard Armstrong were convicted yesterday by a jury in Boise, Idaho, on federal hate crime and conspiracy charges in connection with the racially-motivated assault of an African American man outside of a Wal-Mart store in July 2008, announced Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division; Thomas E. Moss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho; Timothy Fuhrman, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office; and Bill Augsburger, Chief of the Nampa Police Department. Bullard and Armstrong each face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct.19, 2009. A third defendant, James Whitewater, pleaded guilty before trial and testified against the other two defendants. Evidence revealed that on July 4, 2008, three men using racial slurs ambushed, chased and beat a 24-year-old African American man as he walked out of a Wal-Mart store in Nampa, Idaho. Witnesses testified that Bullard, Armstrong an...