• That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
    15·
    4 months ago

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

    • lmaydev@lemmy.world
      17·
      4 months ago

      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.