In an early case during its new term, on October 16 the U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal by Lee Boyd Malvo of the sentence of life without possibility of parole Virginia gave him in 2004 for his role in a series of lethal sniping attacks in the nation’s capital region during the autumn of […]
Month: April 2020
Article: New York State Bans Sex-Based “Panic Defenses” to Murder
New York has by legislation disallowed the so-called gay or trans “panic defenses” to murder charges, in which defendants argue their legal responsibility should be lessened due to the killer’s revulsion at the victim’s sexual or gender identity. The legislature easily passed, and on June 30, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law S. 6573, which […]