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Oct 27, 2007
Quickie Link: NZ Law Commission Recommends to Repeal "Gay Panic" Defence
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By vanrozenheim
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(New Zealand) - New Zealand's Law Commission recommends to remove the 'Gay Panic Defence' from NZ law. The Defence, contained in section 169 of the Crimes Act 1961, allows a murder defendant to claim that he was the object of sexual advances by the victim, and found these advances so offensive that he was driven to murder in a psychotic state. If the defence is accepted, the murder charge is reduced to manslaughter.
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