Jury begins deliberating in NY hate crime trial
(Syracuse, NY)A jury is deliberating at the trial of a 20-year-old upstate New York man charged with the hate crime slaying of a transgendered woman.
Prosecutors say Dwight DeLee fatally shot 22-year-old Lateisha (lah-TEE’-shuh) Green outside a Syracuse house party last November because of anti-gay bias.
Three days of testimony wrapped up …
Judge: Witnesses in hate crime trial threatened
(Syracuse, NY) Three people who were at a New York house party when a transgendered woman was murdered testified Wednesday that the Syracuse man accused of the crime directed an anti-gay slur at the victim.
However, none of those witnesses could positively say Dwight DeLee was the person who fired the …
