[blind-democracy] FW: Gay panic

  • From: "Bob Hachey" <bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:59:22 -0500

Hi all,

Here’s one that shocked me and that’s hard to do these days. Can you believe 
that in 49 states, homophobes can use “gay panic” as self-defense?

Now, That’s American injustice at its best!

Cynically Speaking

Bob Hachey 

 

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When I first heard of the “panic defense,” I was shocked. A legal defense that 
asserts that feeling panicked at an LGBT person’s romantic advances justifies 
assault or murder? And it’s legal? It turns out that it is a permissible 
defense in 49 out of 50 states, and has been used to fight or reduce many 
people’s charges.

I heard about it in the 2008 murder case of 15-year-old Larry King in 
California. He had asked Brandon McInerney to be his valentine. McInerney came 
to school later that day and shot King two times in the back of the head. When 
McInerney went to court for his crime, he used the gay panic defense. Because 
of this, McInerney received only a lesser second degree murder sentence.

The panic defense is anti-LGBT, anti-civil rights, and anti-American. Please 
join me in calling on Utah state lawmakers to ban the panic defense, in hopes 
that other states follow suit. 

And young Larry King was just one of many victims whose murders didn’t get the 
justice they deserved because of this grossly prejudicial defense. We can’t let 
this go on in a free country. California recently made good on a promise not to 
let such a miscarriage of justice happen again. In 2014, it became the first 
(and only) state to officially ban the “panic defense” in court. It’s time for 
the other 49 states to follow suit. Please call on Utah state officials to ban 
the panic defense in Utah courts. We must not stop fighting this travesty of 
justice until it is outlawed in all 50 states.

 


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