• @[email protected]
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    152 months ago

    Is this a common defense used in criminal trials? I genuinely don’t know and found very little when googling.

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      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.

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        32 months ago

        Imagine if someone kills a person and then goes like ‘that because I felt gay that day, silly’