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Philippine President Grants Absolute Pardon to U.S. Marine Convicted of Killing Transgender Woman
‘trans panic’ defense in his trial, saying he feared Laude would rape him after he discovered she was transgender.The AP report in 2015 after Pemberton was convicted: “Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted of homicide by first strangling Jennifer Laude and then dunking her head into a toilet bowl in the hotel they had checked into after meeting in a disco bar in Olongapo city, northwest of Manila. He was sentenced to 6-12 years in jail, with time spent in detention credited, said court clerk Gerry Gruspe.