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Transgender murder, hate crime conviction a first

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Kenko, Apr 22, 2009.

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  1. Kenko

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    http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/22/transgender.slaying.trial/index.html

    "Andrade admitted killing Zapata, but his defense argued that he acted in the heat of passion after discovering that Zapata was biologically male. The defense asked for a lesser verdict, such as second-degree murder or manslaughter."

    That's the stupidest defense ever. What sort of "heat of passion" is that?
     
    #1 Kenko, Apr 22, 2009
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    It's pretty much exactly the same as the "homosexual panic" defence which, unbelievably, has been used pretty successfully.
     
    #2 joeyconnick, Apr 22, 2009
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    . . .

    What gets me is that even after killing her, he still stubbornly referred to Angie as 'he'.
     
    #3 Bunny, Apr 22, 2009
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    murder is murder, no matter why it was comitted.
     
    #4 Emberstone, Apr 22, 2009
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    This idiot KNEW Angie was transgendered BEFORE he killed her! She had gone to a court hearing with him,prior to this. I'm so happy he got LIFE without parole. Stupid bastard!
     
    #5 Mickey, Apr 22, 2009
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    To kill her and then go on to refer to her as "it" or "he" is awful... THings like this shouldn't happen. One would think that after ending racial segregation and gender segregation we would realize that segregation based on sexual/gender orientation is not a good thing either...
     
    #6 BlakeHarmony, Apr 22, 2009
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    Thats so sad. But the worst part of all this is that only 11 states would recognise that as a hate crime. What about all the others!
     
    #7 silas99, Apr 24, 2009
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    i hope he never gets out trying to use such a horrid defense :frowning2:
     
    #8 Just Adam, Apr 24, 2009
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    He sounds really fucking intelligent.

    People like this ought to get put down for sheer glakitness :slight_smile:
     
    #9 Mr Bojangles, Apr 25, 2009
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    This just makes me really fucking sick. It just makes me wonder if this guy had been taught about the LGBT community when he was younger, learned to empathize, maybe he would've handled the situation differently.
     
    #10 Miles D, Apr 25, 2009
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