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Defendant Claiming God Ordered Killing of Lover Never Told Cops That

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | While the accused killer of Carlos Castro asserted in court filings that “he was acting as a conduit for God” when he killed the 65-year-old Portuguese TV personality and gay activist in a Manhattan hotel last year, he did not tell police that when he gave them a statement roughly 36 hours [...]

September 14, 2012328713 Comments2012-09-14+23%3A20%3A04adminRead More

Davawn Robinson, Edgard Mercado’s Killer, Sentenced to Four-to-15 Years

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The convicted killer of Edgard Mercado could serve as much as 15 years in prison after a Manhattan judge sentenced him to a term of four-to-15 years in the 2009 strangling death. “I am going to sentence you to the maximum, but the minimum will be four years,” said Judge Bruce [...]

August 16, 201228562 Comments2012-08-16+14%3A08%3A07adminRead More

How Hard Were Witnesses Sought in 2010 Newark Park Killing?

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A document filed in the federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the family of DeFarra Gaymon, a 48-year-old man who was killed by police during a 2010 public sex sting in Newark’s Branch Brook Park, is raising questions about how hard investigators looked for witnesses to that shooting. “Even though this [...]

July 19, 201223371 Comment2012-07-19+19%3A50%3A00adminRead More

Bronx Residence Aims to Assist LGBT Ex-Offenders

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | As he was headed to criminal court in Manhattan roughly seven years ago, Patrick A. Sands was dressed in a suit with a pink tie. He was handcuffed to another defendant who objected, calling Sands a “faggot” and a “mook.” The other man then punched Sands. In another incident, Sands [...]

July 18, 201223431 Comment2012-07-18+16%3A45%3A49adminRead More

God Made Me Do It Defense in 2011 Midtown Murder

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The accused killer of Carlos Castro will argue that he believed he was acting on instructions from God when he murdered and dismembered the 65-year-old Portuguese TV personality and gay activist in a Manhattan hotel last year. “Mr. Seabra developed a manic episode and became fulminantly psychotic,” David Touger, the attorney [...]

July 5, 201221528 Comments2012-07-05+16%3A20%3A52adminRead More

Third Plea Deal in Works in Bronx Torture, Sex Assaults Case

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | An apparent ringleader in a notorious anti-gay torture and sexual assault case in the Bronx is making a plea deal with the district attorney there. “We’re asking for more time for the pre-plea investigation report,” an attorney for Indelfonso Mendez, 25, said in court on July 3. That attorney was appearing [...]

July 5, 20122148No Comment2012-07-05+16%3A11%3A38adminRead More

Union Square Vigil Commemorates Fatal Attack on Texas Lesbians

As many as 100 demonstrators answered a call from the grassroots group Queer Rising for a vigil to commemorate a June 22 shooting attack on two Texas lesbian teenagers that left one of them dead and the other recovering from a head wound. Mollie Olgin, 19, and her girlfriend Mary Kristene Chapa, 18, were [...]

July 4, 20122118No Comment2012-07-04+12%3A25%3A01adminRead More

Davawn Robinson Convicted of Manslaughter, Not Murder in Edgard Mercado Killing

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | After deliberating for roughly a day, a Manhattan jury found Davawn Robinson guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the 2009 killing of Edgard Mercado. Jurors weighed second-degree murder, based on the prosecution’s argument that Robinson, 25, intended to kill the 39-year-old Mercado when he strangled him to death in the older man’s [...]

June 27, 201220333 Comments2012-06-27+23%3A20%3A57adminRead More

Closing Arguments in Davawn Robinson Retrial for Edgard Mercado ’09 Murder

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Calling the accused killer of Edgard Mercado a “predator” and a “killer,” an assistant district attorney asked a Manhattan jury to convict Davawn Robinson of second-degree murder in the 2009 slaying. “There’s only one issue for you to decide and that’s whether he intended to cause Mr. Mercado’s death, and the [...]

June 25, 20121812No Comment2012-06-25+23%3A02%3A50adminRead More

New Medical Examiner Testimony Key Focus in Second Davawn Robinson Trial

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | With major testimony ended in the retrial of Davawn Robinson, the accused killer of Edgard Mercado, the defense and prosecution have presented a Manhattan jury with two very different stories of Mercado’s death. “I started to do some of the things he told me,” Robinson said on the witness stand on [...]

June 21, 201216982 Comments2012-06-21+21%3A46%3A54adminRead More

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