Monday, July 13, 2009
Opening Day Of DeLee Trial
Posted by Monica Roberts at 7:00 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/07/opening-day-of-delee-trial.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/07/opening-day-of-delee-trial.html)
Lost in the avalanche of news events such as the Sotomayor hearings and the scrubbed NASA shuttle launch was the start of the Dwight DeLee murder trial in Syracuse.
DeLee is the accused killer of Latisha Green and before the trial jumped off this morning TLDEF held a press conference on the steps of the Onondaga County courthouse.
During the press conference a statement was read by Teish's aunt Rhonda Gary calling for coverage of transpeople in hate crimes laws. The statement was originally supposed to be read by her mother Roxanne Green, but she was overcome with emotion over the moment and unable to do so.