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Re:How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon ... by maroonblazer on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:40AM (#14989523)
>I don't know of a case where it's been entirely successful but it has mitigated sentences.

If true this is remarkable...disturbingly so. Can you cite some cases where this has happened?

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Re:How I, a woman in tech, benefited from sexism in Silicon ... by dragonwriter on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:54AM (#14989645)
Wikipedia has some cases where the defense was used, but it's hard to ascribed the cases where there was a conviction on a lesser charge (or sentencing decisions) specifically to the use of the defense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense

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