Cuomo Plans New Push to End ‘Gay Panic’ Defense by End of Session

By Dan M. Clark

May 29, 2019

Cuomo Plans New Push to End ‘Gay Panic’ Defense by End of Session

5.29.2019

By Dan M. Clark

The New York Law Journal quoted Immediate Past President Michael Miller on the ‘gay panic’ defense. (may require subscription)

A bill to prohibit defendants from using that defense has moved in the State Senate this year, but has yet to make it out of committee in the State Assembly.

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