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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Star-Ledger , Secaucus Reporter A gay couple in Secaucus, New Jersey was awakened at about 1 am in April, 2004 by the sound of raucous partying at the firehouse next door to their house. When one of the men asked the firefighters to keep it down, they responded with outrage, according to a civil suit filed by the couple which is being tried this week in a Jersey City courtroom. When Timothy Carter returned to the house after asking the firefighters to quiet down, a drunken mob banged on the side of the house and loudly threatened to kill the men and their dogs, according to the couple....
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- A Tennessee native was found not guilty today of felony murder in the slaying of Victor Manious, a Gaines Township man whose body was found in the trunk of his own vehicle, parked on a downtown street. The jury found Steven Scarborough, 22, guilty of a lesser charge voluntary manslaughter. Scarborough was accused of luring 62-year-old Victor Manious to a friend's apartment to rob him. The prosecution said he then struck Manious in the head with a blunt force object before dragging him down stairs to Manious' car, stuffing...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Grand Rapids Press MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- While a jury considers the fate of Steven Scarborough who admits to killing Victor Manious, members of the dead man's family turned to the local press to dispute pictures painted of Manious by both prosecutors and defenders in the case. While lawyers on the two sides of the case described vastly different scenarios during the trial, both had a common theme -- that Manious, a father of four and lay leader of the local Coptic Church, was arguably gay. Family members insist that can't be true of the man they knew. Assistant Prosecutor...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial [post updated at 7:26 pm PT with breaking information from WOOD TV ] Grand Rapids, Mich. -- A Kent County jury here has begun deliberations into whether Steven Scarborough is a robber and kidnapper who bludgeoned a 62-year-old man to death, or whether the 22-year-old defendant was being molested and wielded a baseball bat in self defense. Closing arguments were presented in the first part of the day. Then jury began discussing the evidence presented around 2 p.m. Wednesday, and went home for the day around 5:30 p.m. Defense lawyers said again...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial Steven Scarborough testified in his own defense on Monday and Tuesday WOOD TV screen capture GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- It was phrased as a question, but the look on accused murderer Steven Scarborough's face made it appear it was news to him. "If you hadn't stolen from Victor Manious, you would have gotten away with this," Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Helen Brinkman said to Scarborough, who returned to the stand Tuesday in his own defense on the charge of felony murder. Brinkman told Scarborough there were no prints on the...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: Grand Rapids Press MI Manious trial Steven Scarborough GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- As part of the so-called "gay panic" defense being used to explain the actions of accused killer Steven Scarborough, his lawyer planned to show there was a connection between victim Victor Manious and a friend of the accused -- a person described as being "up to his eyeballs in this crime." Defense attorney Paul Denenfeld said in his opening statement to the jury that 19-year-old Justin Robinson played a major role in the alleged murder of Manious, a 62-year-old found dead in a car trunk in...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- Two vastly different accounts of what happened before, during and after the death of a local businessman and church leader were presented to jurors today in opening statements for the murder trial of Steven Scarborough. The prosecution said Scarborough is a killer, while the defense put forth that Scarborough got dragged into the murder by a friend with whom he was staying. Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Helen Brinkman said Scarborough lured 62-year-old Victor Manious from a local gay bar to a friend's apartment in July...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , Muskegon Chronicle MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- A jury was to be selected today to hear the case against 21-year-old Steven Scarborough, accused of luring 62-year-old Victor Manious to a Southeast Side apartment where the older man was beaten and robbed, then stuffed into the trunk of a Toyota only in his underwear and left to die. Scarborough faces mandatory life in prison if he is convicted of murder, but defense attorney Paul Denefeld is expected to argue the younger man overreacted to homosexual advances from the late businessman and lay leader of the...
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Tuesday, March 04
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Source: Toronto Star and Xtra The long-time lover of popular Toronto gay bar owner Janko Naglic has been acquitted of his first-degree murder by a jury that deliberated for around four hours. The jury returned with its not guilty verdict around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday following a three-week trial that heard from an array of witnesses who testified about the deteriorating relationship between the accused, Ivan Mendez-Romero, and Naglic. "It was a strange trial where hearsay evidence was produced as real evidence," defence lawyer Laurence Cohen told the jury in his summation on Mar 3 in the...
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Thursday, February 21
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Source: Toronto Star , Xtra In the weeks before his slaying, prominent Toronto gay bar owner Janko Naglic told his doctor and a lawyer that he was worried because his live-in lover was threatening to kill him, the man's murder trial has heard. Latest: Mendez-Romero acquitted of murder charge (3/4/08) "He said Ivan was demanding half of his business and if he didn't get it he would kill him," lawyer Douglas Barker told Ivan Mendez-Romero's murder trial today. Naglic was owner of The Barn and The Stables, a bar on Church St. On Oct. 27, 2004, Naglic was found, his mouth and...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Toronto Star , Canada.com TORONTO - A prominent member of the gay community in Toronto was killed by his partner of more than 10 years because their relationship was over and he was afraid of losing his lavish lifestyle, the prosecution argued Tuesday. Latest: Mendez-Romero acquitted of murder charge (3/4/08) Ivan Mendez-Romero, 38, is accused of killing Janko Naglic, 56, on Oct. 26, 2004. His first-degree murder trial opened yesterday with the Crown, Ann Morgan, breezing through a rapid-clip overview of the case to be presented. Mendez-Romero was a "desperate man" when he suffocated...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Press Association and BBC News BBC Radio 4 presenter Nigel Wrench was cleared of raping a man he met at a New Year party. Mr Wrench, 47, was accused of forcing the younger man to perform a sex act on him in January last year. The presenter on Radio 4's PM programme bowed his head and sighed when the verdict was delivered at the Old Bailey. He had admitted snorting cocaine with the man at a party in Kennington, south London, before inviting him home and showing him his art collection. The alleged victim, now a 27-year-old PA, told the jury he blacked out after taking a gulp of champagne...
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Wednesday, February 06
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Source: Times (London) and Sunday Mirror A gay BBC radio presenter spiked a man's champagne after a party and forced him to submit to a sex act, a rape trial jury heard yesterday. Nigel Wrench, 47, who fronted the PM show on Radio 4, is said to have used the drug Temazapam on the 26-year-old. The 27-year-old man told a jury he felt “violated” when Nigel Wrench forced him to perform a sex act hours after they met at a New Year party. Wrench had invited him round to see an Andy Warhol painting he had, the court heard. He also told the younger man that he had a bottle of Taittinger at home, and...
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Thursday, January 03
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Sacramento, Calif. - A hate-crime trial reconvenes Friday in a case that's dividing Sacramento and drawing attention from organizations that monitor extremists. Alex Shevchenko has been arraigned for a hate crime tied to the assault and eventual death of Satender Singh in July. According to prosecutors, Mr. Shevchenko and Andrey Vusik taunted Mr. Singh in a park because they thought he was gay. Mr. Vusik eventually threw a punch that toppled Singh, dashing his head, they charge. Gay leaders in Sacramento say the incident followed several years of escalating...
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Wednesday, December 05
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Source: TV3 News There has been a hung jury in the murder trial of a teenager accused of murdering a gay Palmerston North man Stanley Waipouri. The jury deliberated for nearly 11 hours on the charges against Andre Gilling, but was unable to reach a verdict. The 18-year-old has been remanded in custody until February 5. Gilling's co-accused, 21-year-old Ashley Arnopp, earlier this week changed his plea and has been convicted of murdering 39-year-old Mr Waipouri in his flat last December. Full article: TV3 > News > National News
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Monday, December 03
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Source: The Times Leader WILKES-BARRE, Penn -- Attorneys for homicide suspect Harlow Cuadra want his trial postponed. The attorneys, William Ruzzo and John Donovan, are members of the Luzerne County Public Defender’s Office. They said they need more time to prepare. They also want more time to file pre-trial motions. The attorneys made the requests in court papers filed Monday. They said they are waiting to receive additional paperwork from prosecutors and an electronic reproduction of more than six hours of taped conversation involving Cuadra. They need to review those items before preparing the...
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Thursday, November 22
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Source: Independent Online (South Africa) (Cape Argus) A colleague of restaurant manager Andrew Merryweather told a court that the comment "look at these gay guys" had triggered the assault outside a Claremont petrol station. Progress Mphande was testifying during the trial of seven teen-age boys in the Wynberg Regional court on Thursday. The young men are on trial for the attempted murder of Merryweather and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm in connection with an attack on his brother Nicholas Merryweather. Mphande said he and Merryweather had approached three guys from...
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Friday, November 09
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Source: Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - A Navy physician accused of secretly recording Naval Academy midshipmen having sex in his home was convicted this morning on all charges. The jury of five men and one woman -- all Navy captains -- issued their decision shortly after 11 a.m. at the Washington Navy Yard, where the general court martial was conducted against Cmdr. Kevin Ronan. He was found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer, illegal wiretapping and obstruction of justice. Ronan, 41, of Annapolis, could get more than 10 years in a Navy brig. Sentencing may take place today. Jurors met for 4 1...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: Navy Times and Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON— A jury of six Navy captains began deliberations Thursday in the court-martial of a Navy doctor accused of using a hidden camera to videotape Naval Academy students engaged in sexual acts. Navy prosecutors and attorneys for Cmdr. Kevin Ronan finished their cases earlier Thursday with closing arguments on the seven counts of conduct unbecoming an officer, three counts of illegal wiretapping and one count of obstruction of justice that Ronan faces. Ronan is accused of using a camera hidden in an air purifier to tape the male midshipmen having sex with...
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Wednesday, November 07
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Source: Orlando Sentinel and WFTV News BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- State Rep. Bob Allen peered over a stall in a public park restroom to show his interest in soliciting sex from an undercover police officer, a prosecutor said in opening arguments in the lawmaker's trial Wednesday. Allen walked in the courtroom with his wife by his side, confident he will beat the charges against him. "We're glad for this day, that the trial is finally here," he said. The lawmaker faces a second-degree misdemeanor charge of soliciting prostitution. The charge carries a maximum 60 days in county jail...
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Wednesday, November 07
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Source: Citizen Voice WILKES-BARRE, Penn. — Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas’ office hopes to tell a jury about two Virginia Beach men’s involvement in a gay escort service to help prove they killed a Dallas Township man. Harlow Raymond Cuadra and Joseph Manuel Kerekes are accused of slashing and stabbing Bryan Kocis inside his Midland Drive home and then torching the house to cover up the crime. Prosecutors filed a number of motions in the case Tuesday seeking to enter evidence in the case and prevent the lovers and business partners from bringing up Kocis’ past crimes in trial. Cuadra...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: News.com.au Perth -- A SELF-harming teenage student who was struggling with solvent abuse was seduced by her home economics teacher into a lesbian affair, a Perth court has heard. The accused teacher, Elizabeth Anne Crothers, 50, is on trial in the West Australian District Court charged with 10 counts of indecent dealing and 13 of sexual penetration of the girl. In WA it is legal to engage in lesbian sex at 16 years old, but the age of consent rises to 18 when one of the parties holds authority over the other, such as in a teacher-student relationship. Ms Crothers, a mother of two, has...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: New York Times In a case that has drawn intense scrutiny to the legal meaning of hatred, the last of four young men charged with selecting a gay man as a robbery target and chasing him to his death in traffic pleaded guilty yesterday to manslaughter and attempted robbery as hate crimes. The defendant, Ilya Shurov, 21, agreed to serve 17 1/2 years in prison. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of felony murder as a hate crime, which could have meant a life sentence. “If there was no life sentence,” said a defense lawyer, Hermann P. Walz, “we would have rolled the dice.” Instead, the...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON -- A former Naval Academy midshipman who appears in sex videos prosecutors say were recovered from a Navy physician's house asked his ex-girlfriend to make a pornographic movie with him when they were dating, the woman testified today. The woman, a senior midshipman testifying in the court-martial of Navy Cmdr. Kevin Ronan, said her ex-boyfriend asked on several occasions to film them having sex and made her feel guilty when she declined. Defense attorneys for Ronan sought to use the woman's testimony to support their contention that the sex videos were...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: Melbourne Herald-Sun Perth -- A HOME economics teacher who began a lesbian relationship with a teenage student was taking advantage of the girl's insecurities and lack of self-esteem, the Perth District Court was told yesterday. Elizabeth Anne Crothers, 50, has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of sexually penetrating the 16-year-old girl - who is now 25 - and 10 counts of indecently dealing with a child in her care. On the first day of her District Court trial yesterday, the court was told that Ms Crothers admitted having a sexual relationship with the teenager, but only did so after...
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Tuesday, October 23
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Source: Baltimore Sun A member of a Kansas-based anti-gay church told a federal jury Tuesday that America's acceptance of homosexuality spurred her and fellow parishioners to picket a Westminster Marine's funeral, one of the demonstrations by the group that have become so frequent that 22 states have enacted or proposed laws limiting the rights of protesters at memorial services. Representing herself in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Shirley Phelps-Roper, a nonpracticing attorney, told jurors that she and her fellow protesters remained about 1,000 feet away from the funeral of Lance...
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Tuesday, October 16
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Source: Baltimore Sun The father claimed protesters destroyed his only chance to bury in peace the son he lost in Iraq. The picketers who carried signs with such messages as "Thank God for dead soldiers" countered they were only trying to oppose gays in the military. After the two sides presented legal arguments in a Baltimore courtroom yesterday, a federal judge offered a split decision. He ruled that a more limited lawsuit brought by Albert Snyder, the father of the slain Marine whose funeral was targeted by the Kansas-based anti-gay group, can proceed to trial next week. At times incensed...
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Tuesday, October 02
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By the time Anthony Fortunato took the witness stand yesterday, facing charges of murder as a hate crime in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, his whole life was at stake. The rest of it could be spent in prison. To save himself, he offered his last, deepest...
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Tuesday, October 02
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WASHINGTON -- Gay pornography found on the computer of a Navy doctor can be submitted as evidence in his trial on charges that he made secret video recordings of Naval Academy midshipmen having sex in his Annapolis home, a military judge ruled yesterday...
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