Law Austin Man Avoids Charges for Murder For Stabbing Neighbor, Uses 'Gay Panic' Defense

Austin, TX resident James Miller avoided charges of murder and manslaughter for the fatal stabbing of his neighbor, Daniel Spencer, using the gay panic defense in court this week. Instead, Miller was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide.

Miller testified that he and Spencer were playing music together and drinking in Spencer’s home when Spencer allegedly made sexual advances on Miller. When Miller rejected those advances, he says Spencer became angry and aggressive.

At 5’ 4” and 69 years old, Miller said he thought Spencer (32 and a full eight inches taller) might hurt him, and therefore he acted in self-defense. Miller stabbed Spencer in the back, and Spencer later died.

Prosecutors pointed out that Miller didn’t have a scratch on him and argued that the notion that deadly force was used appropriately for self-defense was “ludicrous.”

The gay panic defense, which Miller invoked, is when a defendant argues that they were unusually violent only as a temporary reaction to unwanted sexual advances from a gay person. While the American Bar Association recommends that all states ban the gay panic defense, it’s officially only been banned in California and Illinois.

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[polonium]

I find it hard to believe that a young guy like that would be hitting on some old grandpa when he could easily find a partner his own age. I think something else went on and the old man was terrified of dying in prison and made this up on the fly.

Exactly.
"Well, we just don't know what happened on the night" is a dumb argument because it presupposes that there would be some thing that happens that would have justified murder. No doubt there are a whole range of things that might make killing someone a reasonable course of action, but there isn't a shred of evidence to support that here. The kid probably let slip he was a homo and the black guy freaked out and is now busy lying about it with the help of his scummy lawyer.

 

[Fleshy Sanik]

Wil Wheaton? Is that you?

Nah, this one allegedly wanted to have sex with an old man.
Wil likes to watch his wife having sex with old men

 

[Red Sun]

I find it hard to believe that a young guy like that would be hitting on some old grandpa when he could easily find a partner his own age. I think something else went on and the old man was terrified of dying in prison and made this up on the fly.

While I don't necessarily believe that this specific guy was trying to bone a grandpa, you could take a 15 minute browse through the gay section of any porn site and find that gay lust for old men is in no short supply. Homosexuals can have daddy issues just like anybody else.

(Not that a young guy trying to make you into his surrogate cock-daddy is an excuse to stab him to death)

 

[Coldgrip]

Now how will the left and the LGBTWTFDIEFAG brigade spin this? On one hand you know a lot of sites won't mention the criminally negligent homicide part so they'll be spouting off shit like how dangerous it is to be gay in Drumpf's Amerikkka and something about how trannys are being murdered by the millions. On the other hand the killer is black, and as we all know he'a gud boy hu dindu nuffin because whitey is the devil.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Now how will the left and the LGBTWTFDIEFAG brigade spin this? On one hand you know a lot of sites won't mention the criminally negligent homicide part so they'll be spouting off shit like how dangerous it is to be gay in Drumpf's Amerikkka and something about how trannys are being murdered by the millions. On the other hand the killer is black, and as we all know he'a gud boy hu dindu nuffin because whitey is the devil.

In situations like this where they can't pin everything on white men, the most common response is complete silence. The progressive stack doesn't allow for a whole lot of nuance, and when something doesn't match up with their hierarchy of oppression they often don't know how to deal with it. It's why the rampant homophobia in the black community has gone largely unaddressed.

 

[frozenrunner]

Now how will the left and the LGBTWTFDIEFAG brigade spin this?

"End hate! Ban homophobia!"

That's if they mention it at all.