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News: Response to Araujo Verdict from Thom Lynch

San Francisco, September 12, 2005

Statement from Thom Lynch, Executive Director
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center

Re: Today's verdicts in the Gwen Araujo Murder Trial

We greet today's verdicts with mixed feelings. Finally there will be some degree of justice for two of the murderers. But another accused of the crime still walks a free man. The jury did not see fit to find that these men were guilty of hate crimes. That hate did not play a role in this murder is unimaginable. There are four unsolved transgender murders in the Bay Area since Gwen's death. That a trans-panic defense is still a workable solution is shocking.

I call on the Alameda prosecutors to bring the remaining defendant back for another trial. Justice is not yet entirely served.

 

 

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