State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 9, 2013
ABA's House of Delegates to weigh in on gay panic defense, juror questions
Resolutions addressing gay-panic defense and juror questions in criminal and civil trials are among the topics up for a vote next week before the American Bar Association's House of Delegates.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
After 15-year-old Larry King was shot in the back of the head at an Oxnard middle school in 2008, there was no question a fellow classmate pulled the trigger. But the jury deadlocked on a verdict after the defendant's lawyers argued King's effeminate dress and unwanted flirtations humiliated their client and provoked him to murder.
Next week, the American Bar Association will weigh in on a res...
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