even blame you for not believing it, it's so far out of your experience. "ken# -- with respect -- it means that any teenager who commits a planned and pre-meditating slaying of a trans teen won't be punished for it." Really, any one anywhere? By your logic, since OJ got off, it means any celebrity anywhere can murder his spouse and won't be punished for it. I think Phil Spector might disagree. "All they have to do is say they were being sexually harassed. No need for witnesses or evidence. " The gay panic defense didn't work in the Matthew Shepard case. And I suspect the "trans panic defense" will die out even faster. This was a tragic case (children killing children always is). And McInerney's attorney's played that for all it was worth. However, I think if the prosecutor had tried this in juvenile court (where think the case should have been from the start) there would have been a much different outcome. As it is, I suspect there will not be a re-trial, but a plea-deal reached. and yes, there is a still a great deal of discrimination against transpeople. However, making these kinds of hyperbolic claims doesn't help. it just means people will brush you off as an irrational person making irrational claims. The charging document reports that Furr stopped his car near First and Pierce Streets NW, exited and pointed a handgun at the vehicle trailing him. The driver ducked to avoid getting shot, and the