We’re musicians and all that kind of stuff, but I’m not a gay guy. Three years later, the former police officer claims that the killing was self-defense and that he was in a “gay panic” after being hit on by another man. A Texas jury sentenced a man who killed his neighbor to ten years probation after his attorneys used the "gay panic" defense. “It’s hard to believe that something like this exists,” D’Arcy Kemnitz, the executive director of the LGBT Bar Association, told The Washington Post. The American Bar Association’s resolution urged lawmakers across the United States to “curtail the availability and effectiveness of the ‘gay panic’ and ‘trans panic’ defense.”Kemnitz said there is active legislation in several states to stop defense attorneys from being able to use a gay panic defense.

Source: Washington Post April 27, 2018 20:36 UTC