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 …
Defense: Colo. slaying because of deception
(Greeley, Colorado) A man accused of beating an 18-year-old transgendered woman to death with a fire extinguisher “snapped” after finding out the teen was biologically male, a defense lawyer argued Thursday as the murder trial began.
But a prosecutor contended Allen Andrade knew Angie Zapata’s secret for at least 36 hours …
