TRANSGENDER MURDER, HATE CRIME CONVICTION A FIRST
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:54:37 -0700
A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime in the slaying of a transgender teen he met over an online social networking site. It the first time in the nation that a state hate crime statute was used to prosecute a transgender person’s murder, the advocacy group Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said. Seated in the front row of the courtroom, the family of Justin “Angie” Zapata broke out in tears as the verdicts were read. The jury deliberated for
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