Courts!

I do not like the “Stand Your Ground” laws, the trans victim is dead and they can’t give their side of the story. You can get away with murder.

Detroit pastor charged in death of transgender woman due in court
Kelly Stough, 36, found dead in December
WDIV Ch4
By Brian Newlin, Associated Press
March 11, 2019

DETROIT - A Detroit pastor been charged in the murder of a transgender woman who was found dead in December in the city's Palmer Park neighborhood is due in court Monday afternoon.

Albert Weathers, 46, of Sterling Heights was charged Monday with murder in the death of 36-year-old Kelly Stough.

A preliminary examination hearing is scheduled for Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m.
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“I want people to know that because she was transgender doesn't mean that she was not loved, that she was not cared for,” Jessica Chantae Stough, Kelly’s mother, told NBC News. “She has a family who cared about her, who loved her, and I want them to know that transgender ladies--expressly those of color--they're just not throwaways; people care about them.”

In another news story it gives more details in what happened.

Pastor says transgender woman he shot tried to rob him
The Detroit News
By George Hunter
March 11, 2019

The man accused of killing a transgender Detroit woman told police he was defending himself against an armed robbery when he pulled out his .40 caliber pistol and fired one fatal shot.

A video of a detective's interview was played Monday in Detroit's 36th District Court during the second day of testimony in the preliminary examination of Albert Weathers, a Sterling Heights pastor who is accused of killing 36-year-old Kelly Stough on Dec. 7 near McNichols and Brush.
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Weathers claims Stough tried to rob him after he dropped his daughter off at school. He said Stough jumped in his vehicle and asked for money.

During Monday's hearing, Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Jaime Powell Horowitz played audio of Weathers calling police an hour after the shooting to report he'd fired his pistol.
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"“It’s a bad situation," Weathers began. "I dropped my daughter off … I stopped at the gas station. I’m familiar with the church that was adjacent from this location.” He said the gas station was no longer a Marathon station, so he wanted to go to another gas station.

“That’s when this individual who appeared to be female, but when they spoke it was a male voice, came up," he said. "I rolled the window down thinking they were in distress or needed assistance. That was my fault.

"As I rolled the window down, that individual unlocked the door and proceeded to get into my vehicle," Weathers said. "I said, ‘Get out of my vehicle.’ That’s when I pulled my weapon out, to get them out of my vehicle.”

Weathers claimed Stough said "shoot me, shoot me, shoot me," and then brandished a sharp object, saying, "I'll slash your tires.

Ms. Stough is dead and cannot tell her side of the story.
If I was sitting on the jury my thoughts would be did he roll down his window to solicit sex?

So he drove into a gas station of a brand that he did not want, and he rolled down his window to a stranger standing there.

Now what does this sound like?

Did he lose it when he found out he was hitting on a trans woman? Did his fragile homophobic male ego flip out?

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In another court case a bigoted judge blocks a trans person’s name change.

Appeals court: Judge's denial of transgender name change 'unconscionable'
Cincinnati Enquirer
By Cameron Knight
March 10, 2019

An Ohio appeals court has overturned a judge's decision to deny a transgender 15-year-old a legal name change.

In a unanimous decision, the 12th District Court of Appeals ruled Warren County Probate Judge Joseph Kirby's decision "was arbitrary, unreasonable, unconscionable and based solely upon the transgender status of the applicant's child."

Kylin and Stephanie Whitaker, the parents of the teen, applied for the name change after their child received therapy at the Lindner Center for about a year and was beginning hormone therapy at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, court documents state.

Both of the teen's parents, a therapist and a doctor specializing in treating transgender children stood behind the name change.

In June, Kirby denied the request claimed the teen lacked the "maturity, knowledge and stability" to make such a decision.

Hmm… do you think that the judge was a little bit biased?

Kirby's judgment has been reversed and remanded, meaning that the Warren County Probate Court has been ordered to reconsider the Whitakers' application.

So now the child has to go back and go through the whole process again… victimizing the victim again. The bigoted judge cost undue hardship and expenses on the child and the family.

At the new hearing they could get the same judge again and the judge could rule again denying the name change.

And do you wanted to guess which party the judge is?

You guessed it… Republican.