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Panic Defense

A legal strategy used by defendants in criminal cases, particularly assault or murder, where they claim that the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity provoked them to commit the crime.

Mitigate

To make an offense or penalty less severe or serious.

Federal Rules of Evidence

The rules that govern what evidence can be presented in a trial in federal court.

Sexual Orientation

A person's enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attraction to men, women, or both sexes.

Gender Identity

A person's internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or somewhere else along the gender spectrum.

Gender Expression

How a person publicly presents their gender, such as through clothing, hair, makeup, body language, and voice.

Title 18, United States Code

The section of federal law that deals with crimes and criminal procedure in the United States.