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Gay panic defense
Gay panic defense is a term used to describe a rare but high-profile legal defense against charges of assault or murder. A lawyer using the gay panic defense claims that the defendant acted in a state of temporary insanity because of a little-known psychiatric condition called homosexual panic.
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