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Man's hate-crime murder trial proceeds in Syracuse

Thu, Jul 16th 2009 12:00 am
SYRACUSE (AP) - Testimony will continue in the trial of a 20-year-old upstate New York man charged with the hate crime-murder of a transgender woman.

Prosecutors say Dwight DeLee fatally shot 22-year-old Lateisha Green outside a Syracuse house party last November because of anti-gay bias.

If convicted of a hate crime, DeLee would face additional prison time.

The trial resumes Tuesday in Onondaga County Court. Green's brother, Mark Cannon, returned to the witness stand for cross-examination by DeLee's defense attorney. Cannon was wounded in the same attack.

If DeLee is convicted of committing a hate-crime murder, it would be only the second hate-crime conviction involving the murder of a transgender person in the United States.