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Black trans woman Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe was found shot dead in her car in South Carolina. Now, her killer has been found guilty.
Smollet was convicted in 2021.
The former Empire star was convicted in December of five counts of disorderly conduct related to staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself and lying to police about it.Â
Fred Costanza was convicted of beating Lauren Jackson after she used the women's restroom at a park.
A jury convicted a Brooklyn, N.Y., man of manslaughter and on hate-crimes charges Friday for an attack on a gay victim at a remote city beach that led to the victim's death. John Fox was one of two young men on trial for their roles in the assault on Michael Sandy, who was ambushed and chased into traffic during a mugging a year ago. A car struck Sandy as he fled onto Brooklyn's Belt Parkway, fatally injuring him.
David Bogadanov, found guilty in the death of Nikki Kuhnhausen, became outraged after discovering she was trans.
Adolfo Martinez had said he burned the flag because of his hostility to LGBTQ people.
The court’s ruling reaffirmed the hate crime statute’s application to symbolic acts, balancing protection against hate crimes with free speech rights.
Two men were sentenced Monday after being convicted of antigay hate crimes.
The announcement comes as the out actor appeals his conviction on charges that he faked a hate crime against himself.
There are convictions in only a small percentage of cases, and there has been only one hate-crime conviction in a trans person's death over the past five years, Insider found.
George Floyd's civil rights trial is up next, and more cases need to go to trial to counter the rising voices of bigotry.
Adolfo Martinez told a television station he was "guilty as charged."
Scott Philip White had earlier declared he was "guilty, guilty, guilty" of the murder.
The victim was Michael Sandy, a gay black 28-year-old. The suspects were a crew of young whites who ran out of money and drugs on a Sunday night and figured a gay man would be an easy mark for a robbery.
Smollett's legal team said he was in danger in jail and that his sentence would be over by the time the appeals process concluded.
Charlie Kirk DID say stoning gay people was the 'perfect law' — and these other heinous quotes
These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.