s fox 5 tom fitzgerald ive at the wilson building tonight. tom, i was surprised t hear this was a legal defense. have other states or cities enacted laws to do away with this act? >> you knhe, i'm right t with you, shawn. reading rst started out this, you know, you shake your head. how could that be? how cld that be a criminal defense? but turns out, in fact, in several ways, defendants across the country used what's beens termed a gay panic as way to defend themselves in court. pretty much shawn, what this almost turns blame around to the vi tims inhese cases, which is justsh astonig, that somebody could be the victim of an assaulto but yet into court to have your due process and then somehow, y know, have the person who assau you, you know, claim they were somehow excused from in behavior because of the g panic, it's something that many states across the country are a lookingt right now. some haveha move w dc is ants to be the first one in bit our area to gethis on the isbooks. is not a way somebody could use to defend themselves in court i
