Lawyer: NYC immigrant killing not hate crime
Posted on March 3, 2009
Filed Under 365Gay, News
(New York City) A lawyer for one of two men accused of murdering an Ecuadorean immigrant in a hate crime says his client acted in self-defense, believing the victim was reaching for a gun during a scuffle.
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