The Gay Panic Defence, going strong
Sep. 2nd, 2011 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessAfter threatening to kill Larry King, Brendan McInerney came to school, with a gun and shot him.
Threatened to kill him, planned to kill him, arrived armed to kill him, then killed him. Or, to put it another way, text book pre-meditated murder.
The defence? Larry's demeanour and clothing (he sometimes wore women's clothes) and highly dubiously alleged “come ons” so enraged, disturbed and horrified Brendan that in a fit of calculasted murderous planning he committed pre-meditated murder. Or, to put it another way, the gay panic defence.
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Threatened to kill him, planned to kill him, arrived armed to kill him, then killed him. Or, to put it another way, text book pre-meditated murder.
The defence? Larry's demeanour and clothing (he sometimes wore women's clothes) and highly dubiously alleged “come ons” so enraged, disturbed and horrified Brendan that in a fit of calculasted murderous planning he committed pre-meditated murder. Or, to put it another way, the gay panic defence.
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