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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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