Well, the Ferguson brothers got the fame, but not the fortune, they sought in California when these mug shots appeared in the LA papers. Their attorney, realizing he had a hopeless case, tried to blame the victim, calling Ramon Novarro "a queer" in court and implying that the boys were only defending themselves from his advances. Yeah, right. Oh, and then he put them on the witness stand.
It's scary how often that gay panic defense was used, sometimes successfully, throughout the last century.
ReplyDeleteI'm told that such a defense still pops up from time to time, but it is rare these days.
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