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  • Manslaughter ruled out, Araujo juror says - 'Events devolved into brutal beating and homicide'

    09/14/2005 8:00:35 AM PDT · by SmithL · 8 replies · 497+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/14/5 | Henry K. Lee
    The jury that convicted two men of second-degree murder in the killing of Newark transgender teenager Gwen Araujo flatly rejected defense arguments that it was a case of manslaughter, a San Francisco lawyer who served on the panel said Tuesday. An average person would not have resorted to murder upon discovering that Araujo, 17, was biologically male, Max Stern, 38, of Piedmont, said in an interview with The Chronicle. "The community standard is not and cannot be that killing is something a reasonable person would have done that night," Stern said. Stern, a civil litigator, said the eight-man, four-woman jury...