Breaking: Guilty Verdicts In LaTeisha Green Hate Crime Homicide Trial
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 13:01:14 PM EDT
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From the full Associated Press' article NY man guilty of hate crime in transgender slaying:
A jury on Friday convicted a man of manslaughter as a hate crime for killing a transgender woman he shot outside a house party last year.
Dwight DeLee was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter for the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Lateisha Green outside a Syracuse house party in November because of anti-gay bias. He becomes just the second person in the U.S. convicted of a hate crime that involved the death of a transgender victim.
The Onondaga County Court jury delivered its verdict after deliberating for about six hours over two days.
It was a very short trial, which tends to always go bad for the defendant.