
Oh en ik begreep je wel hoor Lisa Hart. Vind het ook een rotsituatie en hoop dat het aangepakt wordt.
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Ooops ik weer met mijn grote snufferd:o)Nathalie schreef:Maar we weten waar je huis woont ....Joanne schreef:Ik loop al bijna vier jaar als vrouw buiten en ben nog nooit vermoord.
btw Joanne, mag ik je even complimenteren met je echt gewéldige tagline ? So true...
"Je zal maar eens een eendagsvlieg zijn en je dag niet hebben!"Joanne schreef:Ooops ik weer met mijn grote snufferd:o)Nathalie schreef:btw Joanne, mag ik je even complimenteren met je echt gewéldige tagline ? So true...
En bedankt voor je compli. Ik vind het nog steeds leuk die taglines uit te zoeken. Je komt zo ineens een leuke tegen et voila.
Ze begrijpt het.....In transgender case, don't ask jurors to think like defendants
By L.A. Chung
Mercury News Staff Columnist
The fate of Jason Cazares, Jose Merel and Michael Magidson is now in an Alameda County jury's hands.
After two months of testimony, the trial for the killing of a Newark teen, Gwen Araujo, has gone to a panel of four women and eight men, who must decide what happened on an October night in 2002, when the transgender 17-year-old was killed in a house full of so-called friends.
It's a high-profile trial. The jury has a difficult task sorting out who did what and why, whose word to trust, and in what circumstances.
But if I were on the jury there's one thing I know I couldn't do: Think like a man. No matter what defense lawyer Michael Thorman has asked.
Thorman, who is Magidson's lawyer, took a moment Wednesday to address the women of the 12-member jury in his closing arguments. And oh, what a moment!
The case, he acknowledged, had been a conversation piece throughout the Bay Area, and he found reactions varied. Born Eddie Araujo Jr., the slain teen had adopted the name "Gwen'' and went by the name "Lida'' when she fell in with the crowd who turned on her.
"Lida'' had had oral or anal sex with Magidson and Merel. On the night she died, they learned she was anatomically male. All hell broke loose. She was hit with a food can and a skillet, punched, kneed, and ultimately strangled, the prosecution's witness said.
The young men, Thorman said, were provoked. And "while men immediately 'get' the theory of provocation, women have a harder time with it,'' he said. Pause.
Women being the "kinder, gentler sex,'' are perhaps "more forgiving'' and "less expressive in acts of violence.'' They are less able to understand in a way that "hit the gut'' of "how this provocation is to a man.''
The discovery of her "sexual fraud'' was so great and primal a provocation that the young men, including his client, were temporarily driven out of their minds, Thorman contended. And they killed her. Then buried her in the Sierra.
His client was sorry, Thorman said. But he didn't deserve a murder conviction. More like manslaughter. That's what a reasonable person would commit in the "heat of passion,'' he suggested.
Thorman had brought a psychologist, Andrew Pojman, to testify about the fragile psyches of young men who had no goals, lived with their parents and were emotionally immature, stuck somewhere in adolescence. Pojman had obliged with his opinion that it was a potentially dangerous group that could explode at news that threatened their own sexual identities.
Thorman asked female jurors to think of their sons or their nephews. "Place yourselves in a little different mindset.''
Excuse me?
You want me to think like a man?
Why should I? Is it better?
We are told to think like men to succeed in business, on the corporate ladder and practically in every other arena of life. So here are women being asked to think like men again. What would a reasonable, emotionally immature guy do?
Society is served by that?
Being a member of the kinder, gentler sex, my humble opinion is that thinking like a woman is not a bad idea. My first impulse to so-called "sexual fraud'' would not be smashing a can of food over another woman's head . . . or bashing her with a skillet . . . or choking her with a rope. I wouldn't have to worry about where to bury the body -- or about facing 25 years to life in prison.
In an era when we try 14-year-olds for murder and expect them to know right from wrong like adults, we are now asked to think like 24-year-old men who are in a state of arrested emotional development.
So should I give a pass to men for just acting like boys?
From this woman's point of view: Don't insult me.
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Contact L.A. Chung at lchung@mercurynews.com or (408) 920-5280.
De jury is, na een volle week van overleg, nog steeds niet uit, of de drie mannen, beschuldigd van de moord op Gwen Araujo, schuldig zijn of niet.
Wat ik ervan begreep, is dat ze verdeeld waren over moord en men de aanklacht niet wilde terugbrengen tot doodslag.De jury kon niet tot een unaniem oordeel komen en heeft dus geen uitspraak geleverd.
Dat is toch wat Lisa schreef, geen unaniem oordeel? Wat valt er dan te nuanceren?Cynthia schreef:
Wat ik ervan begreep, is dat ze verdeeld waren over moord en men de aanklacht niet wilde terugbrengen tot doodslag.
Voor een verdachte lag de verhouding 7 tegen 5, voor een andere 9 tegen 3 geloof ik. Maar evengoed triest.
De kans op een veroordeling tot moord is minimaal. De verdachte dacht een vrouw te daten, kwam erachter dat ze dat niet van nature was en vermoorde haar in een opwelling. Klinkt erg plausibel.Cynthia schreef: Nu maar hopen dat ze alsnog in een volgend proces schuldig bevonden worden aan moord. Al zal voorbedachte rade moeilijk te bewijzen zijn.
Het verschil zit vervolgens in de op te leggen straf:Murder in the first degree: an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning or "lying in wait" for the victim.
Murder in the second degree: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion" or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offender's obvious lack of concern for human life.
(Voluntary) Manslaughter: an intentional killing in which the offender had no prior intent to kill, such as a killing that occurs in the "heat of passion." The circumstances leading to the killing must be the kind that would cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed.
Murder in the first degree is ongeveer ons begrip moord terwijl murder in the second degree en voluntary manslaughter beter passen bij ons begrip doodslag.
De jury was al zover dat ze manslaughter had uitgesloten, maar nog moest kiezen tussen murder in first degree en murder in second degree. Daarnaast was ook nog de vraag in hoeverre een van de drie personen daadwerkelijk betrokken was bij het doden of dat deze alleen had meegeholpen bij de mishandelingen etc. Nu er sprake was van een mistrial zal als het goed is binnen korte tijd weer een jury gekozen worden, maar de vraag blijft uiteraard of die wel tot een unaniem oordeel kan komen.