Rationalization

[unixronin]

Q:  What do you do when you and two of your buddies, in a drunken haze, beat another acquaintance to death over a period of 24 hours or so, wrap his naked body in a tarpaulin and hide it in his garage, then get turned in to the police ten days later by a third friend to whom you boasted of the murder (and to whom you emailed camera-phone photos, at work, during the process)?

A:  If you live in Crotherton, Indiana, you claim that he was gay¹, and that it's therefore OK because you were afraid Teh Gay would get on you.

[1]  He wasn't.

Comments

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

our legal system has to stop accepting "But he was GAAAAAYYY!!!!" as a defense.

I don't think that it does.

It's possible that some jurors might be swayed - but that's the problem we've got with juries. (Why's OJ out playing golf today?)

Given the story as reported (which is pretty bad), I think the problem is that there's some local political clout with the parentage of one of the accused - more so than his lame excuse. (Which is really just a version of the "Twinkie Defense")

In fact, the attention that this has drawn has been soley because of that stupid attempt. I believe that he will decide that he chose.... poorly.