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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge yesterday chastised
fense attorneys for discussing a “gay panic” strategy
defend a man accused of leading the fatal beating of
gay college student and said he may prohibit them
m using it.
Lawyers for Aaron McKinney are trying to convince
|jury he is guilty of manslaughter
[her than murder in the beating death
Matthew Shepard. They have argued
snapped during a drunken, drug-in-
iced rage after a sexual advance by
epard triggered memories of a child-
lod homosexual assault.
The “gay panic” strategy is built on
theory a person with latent homo-
xual tendencies will have an uncon-
jllable, violent reaction when propo-
ioned by a homosexual.
am concerned about this and
here it is going,” State District Judge
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.actly the same as
after his injury,
changed,” Jones said
The “gay panic'’ strate
gy says a person with
latent homosexual
tendencies will have
an uncontrollable,
violent reaction when
propositioned by a
homosexual.
irton Voigt told defense attorney Dion
stisyesterday. “You never mentioned this before and
re we are. ... We do not have a gay-panic defense jin
yoming], I don’t know if I’m going to allow it.”
Custis denied he was using a “gay panic” defense,
it said the fact Shepard made a sexual advance “has a
levance in this case. It’s something Aaron McKinney
Voigt sent the jury out of the courtroom on a break
while he addressed the issue and ordered Custis to pro
vide a legal basis for his arguments. He then allowed tes
timony to proceed.
One of the lead investigators in the case, police com
mander Dave O’Malley, was on the stand as the prose-
cution outlined events that led to the ar-
rest of McKinney and Russell
Henderson.
Tbesday experts warned that em
ploying the “gay panic” defense is per
ilous because it can amount to blaming
the victim for provoking his own assault.
Brian Levin, director of the Califor
nia-based Center on Hate and Extrem
ism, also said the strategy has not
worked recently because Americans
have become more tolerant of homo
sexuals.
“I feel we’ve turned a very big cor
ner in that nearly everyone agrees that
violence against them is completely wrong,” he said. “I
don’t think you had the same type of atmosphere 20 or
30 years ago.”
That tolerance was amplified in part by the bru
tality of Shepard’s death. Last October, the college
freshman was lashed to a wood fence in a remote
area, robbed and pistol-whipped into a coma. He died
Littleton
offended by
'Hell House'
DENVER (AP) — A Hal
loween display at a Texas church
featuring a re-enactment of the
April massacre at Columbine
High School has offended and
shocked some of those connect
ed to the attack.
The “Hell House” at Trinity
Church in Cedar Hill, Texas, fea
tures a skit in which young actors
dressed in trench coats re-enact
the shooting, in which 15 were
killed and more than 26 were
wounded. The skit ends with the
gunmen being sent to Hell.
The parent of two Columbine
students, Nancy Shakowski, said
the Assembly of God church
made a poor choice by choosing
Columbine as a theme.
“Tm repulsed by it,” she told
the Denver Rocky Mountain
News.
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crutinized for review of Starr
(AP) — Congress may delve into
e details of the difficult relation-
ip between In-
RENO
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pendent Coun-
Ken Starr and
Justice De-
rtment, Sen.
ten Specter said
sterday.
Specter’s state-
mt followed an
sociated Press
ry that Attorney
neral Janet Reno had informed
an just four days before his im-
achment testimony the depart-
nt would review allegations
ainst his office’s conduct of the
mica Lewinsky investigation.
Unknown to Starr, word of
no’s plans already had leaked to
enews media before the Sunday
iemoon meeting between the pros
ecutor and the attorney general.
Specter said he was “a little sur-
sed” by the timing of Reno’s de-
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ion, but this will take:
” the agent said.
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neurologist, Dr.
berg, no relation to
, made a long-term
ation about whether ft
d play again.
day was the first time; , ,
the 38-year-old quart lnd the S TT? rale t r
cision to review the conduct of
Starr’s office, so dose to the inde
pendent counsel’siestimony before
the House impeachnent committee.
The senator, a member of the
Senate Judiciary Conmittee, said the
panel might want tojxamine the sit
uation of “the invesigator being in
vestigated.”
Specter also saidhe committee
might want to evalute new Justice
Department regulatins that are re
placing the Indeperlent Counsel
law that expired JundO.
Though Starr steppd down this
month after five stonv years of in
vestigating President Qiton and his
wife, Hillary, the resm of the Jus
tice Department’s interd review re
main secret.
Any findings still mid affect
how the public ultimely views
Starr’s work, which wile summa
rized in a final report tjhe written
by his successor, Robert ay.
(AP) — An often-ignored mea-
rement taken during routine tread-
“stress tests” can predict a heart
itient’s risk of early death even bet-
ithan many expensive, high-tech
Iproaches, researchers have said.
Cleveland Clinic researchers
aoken with reporters,
rile Dr. Steinberg’s o
rot been disclosed,
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ging.” His agent ha
pinion has been real
ler specialists,
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ss his doctor’s lon|
imendations, but
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nd mentor to his
Jeff Garcia.
w much the heartbeat slows after
meone exercises to exhaustion
d stops — can help doctors spot
ase patients needing aggressive
atment.
That, in turn, could save health-
re dollars by sparing healthier pa
nts risky follow-up tests and pro-
dures for heart disease, the
ition’s biggest killer.
“We have so many sohisticat-
ed tests to do that we seietimes
overlook the obvious,” EGerald
F. Fletcher, a professoiat the
Mayo Medical School i Jack
sonville, Fla, said.
The study is reported in TLsday’s
New England Journal of Mecine.
‘‘It’s already changed myjinical
practice,” Dr. Michael S. Lauedirec-
tor of the Cleveland Clinic’s breise
laboratory, said.
Exercise stress tests, useQince
the ’60s, involve having a pjent
walk on a treadmill while his her
heart rate, blood pressure arthe
heart’s electrical currents are i)ni-
tored. The test costs about $6C
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