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Canada warns LGBT travellers of US risks (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/2089998

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (42 children)

But many states still allow people to get reduced sentences via the gay panic defense for killing LGBTQ people.

You say that like it's explicitly allowed by the state. It isn't. It's a legal defense lawyers use in court. Whether or not it's legitimate is determined by a jury.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You say that like it's explicitly allowed by the state.

It is. Keeping it a valid legal defense is a policy choice. Some states banned it, they chose to. Other states have not, they decided not to. That's politics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But it's not a valid legal defense. You cannot ban a lawyer from putting it forward as a legal defense.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except you actually can, and many states have

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Show me, please

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