Furious about
this. The Bilerico Project has a good breakdown of the legal issues regarding the gay panic defense in the McInerny trial. Here's a good excerpt: it was clear that the defense was banging away at a gay panic defense, suggesting that King's sexual "advances" were the trigger for McInerney's actions. But there are certain things we are not prepared to accept as a "reasonable" provocation. The fact that someone hates …