Jury deliberates fate of Georgia teen charged with murder

[kweerwolf]

A Clayton County, Ga., jury was expected to continue deliberations today in the case of a teen accused of bludgeoning and strangling to death his best friend with a video game cord after he claimed the friend demanded sex from him.

Adrian Mitchell Taylor, 19, is charged with felony murder in the Oct. 14, 2004, death of Joshua Layne Cook, 23. The two had been friends since they were young boys.

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Taylor, claiming insanity as a defense, said he killed his friend only after he said Cook propositioned him for oral sex by pulling down his boxer shorts and demanding Taylor to "suck my dick" in the early morning hours of Oct. 14. The two had been playing video games and shared a marijuana joint.

That alleged sexual advance triggered Taylor to recall the time he was sexually molested by an adult male when he was eight and induced him to act out violently against Cook, according to court testimony.

http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=3884

Yet another attempt to legitimize the "gay panic defense."

If it works, then maybe all of us who have suffered abuse at the hands of the fundies are justified in blowing the assholes away any time they launch into one of their "homo-seck-shuls are abomination" rants.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

1. Maybe it was the meds..

Pot & Gays are the usual whipping boys, but I'll bet ya that he was on some meds and/or some liquor, but that won't be mentioned in the news. Surprised he didn't try the 'demons made me do it' defense. Don't think he will win this case.

[dsc]

2. If I got to strangle all those who demanded I suck their dicks

while I was in middle and high school I would have killed more people than Bundy did.

[BR_Parkway]

3. Fundie panic defense? Works for me, certainly enough of us

have suffered much from these asswipes over the years.

[kweerwolf]

4. Here's some more details from the update version of the story

He was convicted and given life in prison. The story also said:

According to police accounts, Taylor left Cook’s house after Cook proposition him, walked to his house down the street and returned to Cook’s house with a bumper jack. He sneaked back into Cook’s room, where Cook was sitting at the computer with his back toward Taylor. Taylor then struck Cook five times in the head with the bumper jack, swinging it like a baseball bat.

Cook fell to the floor, still alive, police said. Taylor allegedly then took the video game cord, wrapped it around Cook’s neck and drug him through the house and into the yard where he left his bloody body. The strangulation with the cord is what ultimately killed Cook, according to prosecutors.

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The day before the killing, Mary Espisito, Cook’s mother, told her son to stop giving Taylor money because Taylor was "killing himself" through his substance abuse.

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"This is not a gay case — neither of them were gay," she said. But she added that Taylor’s drug habit had become so bad he was allegedly giving sexual favors to others in exchange for drugs.

http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=3884

So the little drug-addled cretin suffered "gay panic" when his friend pulls out his dick, but doesn't think anything about hustling his ass on the street for money to buy drugs?

Even more incredible is that the defense expected the jury to buy the argument.