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fightthegoodfightnow

(7,042 posts) Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:53 PM Oct 2012

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Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Legacy Lives if Not The Verdict

This is disappointing but at least there was a conviction.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/25/14696286-federal-jury-acquits-cousins-of-hate-crime-in-attack-on-gay-man-in-landmark-case

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Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Legacy Lives if Not The Verdict (Original Post) fightthegoodfightnow Oct 2012 OP

We have come a long way since the twinkie defence... and still have a long way to go! Scruffy Rumbler Nov 2012 #1

Scruffy Rumbler

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1. We have come a long way since the twinkie defence... and still have a long way to go!

Reply to fightthegoodfightnow (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 01:00 AM

Nov 2012

Thanks for this story.

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