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Two US men have been found guilty in California of killing a transgender teenager with whom they both had sex.
Michael Magidson and Jose Merel beat, tied up and strangled 17-year-old Gwen Araujo after discovering she was biologically male, the court heard.
Her body was found in a shallow grave in the Sierra Nevada hills soon after the October 2002 killing in Newark.
The men face 15 years to life in jail for murder but were cleared of hate crime charges.
Not to be nitpicky but how is this not a hate crime?
September 13 2005, 18:22:24 UTC 6 years ago
September 13 2005, 18:26:43 UTC 6 years ago
September 14 2005, 12:41:46 UTC 6 years ago
about time
this si the first good headline i've read in a long timeof cousre its obsurd they weren't dinged for hate crimes...
but i'm overjoyed to see 15 to life!
i hadn't heard anything on this case in a long time and had begun to wonder if they'd get off...
ironic this local news comes via the bbc...
thank you very much for posting this
September 14 2005, 12:53:00 UTC 6 years ago
also...
the sfgate article has a bit more from the jurors about the sentancing, including the hate crime: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cand (forgive the snark) i'm sure they'll both learn a lot about tollerance and homaphobia in prison :)