In so far as is possible...

[catsittingstill]

Angie Zapata has justice.

For those who haven't been following this story, Angie Zapata was a transgender teen, murdered for being transgender.  Lawyers for her assailant, Allen Andrade, claimed that he had freaked out in "trans-panic" on discovering that she had been born male, and beat her to death, first with his fists and then with a fire extinguisher, in the grip of that panic.

As if freaking out is a perfectly natural response to discovering that someone is trans.

Fortunately the jury got it. 

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Chewbacca defense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense). Basically anything that doesn't make sense. See also Twinkie defense, most famously used (ironically) in the case of Harvey Milk.

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