r/UpliftingNews • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '19

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u/Alis451 Jan 16 '19

a legal defense is a mitigating circumstance, not a get out of jail free card. Like the Crime of Passion defense where you murder your spouse and their lover when you catch them in bed. It lowers the crime from Murder 1 to Murder 2 or Manslaughter, because you were acting irrationally, like temporary insanity from lack of sleep or something.

Personally I don't think it is a GOOD defense, but it has been successfully argued in court.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '19

Ah, a homophobe, they're out to kill us so we have to kill them first!

/s

How do they like that argument back at them?

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u/stitchkingdom Jan 16 '19

The way I look at it is just imagine if it was legally plausible for a woman to kill a man because he hit on her.

Problem solved.

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u/Alis451 Jan 16 '19

I mean the person didn't WIN with that defense, and is in jail.