Justice for Gwen.
Three years ago Michael Magidson and Jose Merel, now both 25, tied up transgender transgender or transgendered
adj.
Transsexual. teen Gwen Araujo Gwen Amber Rose Araujo (February 24, 1985 – October 4, 2002, née Edward Araujo, Jr.) was a transgendered teenager who died during or shortly after an attack by multiple individuals. , beat her, and then strangled stran·gle
v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles
v.tr.
1.
a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.
b. her to death at a party in Newark, Calif.
Last year a jury deadlocked in their case, but in a retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) a jury on September 12 agreed the two were guilty of second<legree murder though not of committing a hate crime. Magidson and Merel face mandatory sentences of 15 years to life in prison. The jury deadlocked on a third defendant, Jason Cazares, 25, setting up the possibility of yet a third trial.
COPYRIGHT 2005 Liberation Publications, Inc.
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2005, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.
|
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion