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Title: Shooter of trans woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter
Post by: Natasha on August 23, 2008, 03:13:35 PM
Shooter of trans woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter

http://www.epgn.com/082208/1transshooter082208.htm (http://www.epgn.com/082208/1transshooter082208.htm)
Timothy Cwiek
8/22/2008

A Philadelphia judge has acquitted the killer of a trans woman of
murder charges, despite an impassioned plea by the prosecutor that
malice was behind the shooting.

At the end of a three-hour bench trial on Aug. 18, Common Pleas Judge
Jeffrey P. Minehart convicted Terron Oates of voluntary manslaughter
in the death of Alexis King.