{"id":5249,"date":"2021-09-29T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2021-09-29T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:23:00","slug":"leader-book-and-representative-smith-file-bill-to-eliminate-panic-defense-attacks-on-lgbtqia-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5249","title":{"rendered":"Leader Book and Representative Smith file Bill to Eliminate \u201cPanic Defense\u201d Attacks on LGBTQIA+ Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tallahassee, FL \u2014<\/strong> Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book&nbsp;(D-Plantation) and&nbsp;Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith&nbsp;(D-Orlando) this week filed legislation to eliminate the so-called \u201cgay\/trans panic defense\u201d from being used in Florida to legally defend assaults and lethal attacks on LGBTQIA+ individuals.&nbsp;SB 374\/HB 205&nbsp;would disallow the legal strategy of asking a jury to find that a crime victim\u2019s sexual orientation or gender identity caused the defendant to \u201cpanic\u201d and react violently. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Media\/PressReleases\/Show\/4020\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee, FL \u2014 Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book&nbsp;(D-Plantation) and&nbsp;Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith&nbsp;(D-Orlando) this week filed legislation to eliminate the so-called \u201cgay\/trans panic defense\u201d from being used in Florida to legally defend assaults and lethal attacks on LGBTQIA+ individuals.&nbsp;SB 374\/HB 205&nbsp;would disallow the legal strategy of asking a jury to find that a crime victim\u2019s sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}