Beaver@lemmy.ca to transgender@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoMichigan Becomes 20th State to Ban Gay and Trans Panic Defense: A Milestone for LGBTQ+ Rightswww.transvitae.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down10
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkMichigan Becomes 20th State to Ban Gay and Trans Panic Defense: A Milestone for LGBTQ+ Rightswww.transvitae.comBeaver@lemmy.ca to transgender@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareThat_Devil_Girl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15·3 months agoIs this a common defense used in criminal trials? I genuinely don’t know and found very little when googling.
minus-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-23 months agoIt’s not incredibly common from what I can gather. Cases are likely in the 100s over the last few decades. But the fact you can murder someone and say you were scared because they were gay as a defense is completely indefensible. Imagine if a gay person used this as a defense for murdering a straight person. People would lose their collective shit.
minus-squarehumbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoImagine if someone kills a person and then goes like ‘that because I felt gay that day, silly’
Is this a common defense used in criminal trials? I genuinely don’t know and found very little when googling.
It’s not incredibly common from what I can gather. Cases are likely in the 100s over the last few decades.
But the fact you can murder someone and say you were scared because they were gay as a defense is completely indefensible.
Imagine if a gay person used this as a defense for murdering a straight person. People would lose their collective shit.
Imagine if someone kills a person and then goes like ‘that because I felt gay that day, silly’