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Breaking: Justice in Zapata Case

By Fannie

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From The New York Times:

"A jury took just two hours Wednesday to find a Colorado man guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of an 18-year-old transgender woman, and determined that the act was a hate crime."

The murderer conceded that he killed the woman, Angie Zapata, but he attempted to use the "trans panic" defense to lessen the charge from first-degree to second-degree murder. Instead, the jury found Allan Andrade guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of a hate crime, and sentenced him to life in prison without parole. Since the mandatory penalty in Colorado for first-degree murder is life in prison, the hate crime charge has "no immediate practical effect."

Autumn Sandeen at Pam's House Blend has been covering this story since the beginning.

Full post as published by Fannie's Room on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).

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