A person's a person no matter how small

unholy-coffee-erection:

patchthatsweater:

“The trial for trans woman CeCe McDonald officially began today at 9am in Minneapolis. We will be doing our best to follow the case closely and post updates here on PrettyQueer. If you have additional items to report, email red@prettyqueer.com or tweet us @prettyqueer.

The judge is expected to rule on two outstanding motions today, first on whether the defense can use the fact that Dean Schmitz, the deceased, had a swastika tattoo on his chest. The second motion that is still pending is the defense motion to have an expert witness on transgender issues speak to the “climate of violence perpetrated on the trans community and to educate jurors on trans issues.”

If you’d like a full history of the case, check out Support CeCe! or if you’re a legal buff, download the case history in PDF form, from June 7, 2011 to today.

According to reports by the local support team, a number of whom attended the pretrial hearing on Friday, a number of items were decided. The full text is below, but we’ve extracted and color-coded the items of note here as well. Items colored green were beneficial to the defense, regardless of who entered the motion. Red items show that they were decided in a manner that would be unhelpful to the defense.”- prettyqueer.com

yeah

look at that “justice” at work

Dean Schmitz’s prior convictions of domestic assault are irrelevant

the criminal records of witnesses against CeCe who have committed theft are irrelevant

but a bad check CeCe wrote once is pertinent to proving her “dishonesty”

It sounds like they’ve already decided on her guilt since a bad check “shows dishonesty”. Really?

(via millyclaire)