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It was revealed during Marcano's most recent trial that the mutilated fashion designer had suffered not only 42 chops, but that his skull had been split apart, his face gruesomely chopped open and that he'd sustained injuries to his chest and limbs. Justifying Marvin Marcano's release, however, Justices Sharma, Warner and Kangaloo ruled that the issue of self-protection from an unwanted sexual proposition had fueled Marvin Marcano's indignation. Marcano's defense claimed he and a friend had gone with Christopher Lynch to his home. The threesome had been drinking and watching TV. Next, claimed Marcano, Lynch approached his friend in the bathroom. An argument ensued and his friend rushed forthwith to arm himself with the Chinese chopper. The accused claimed he'd rushed to his friend's defense. Marcano held Lynch, he said, while his friend chopped away at him and "because he was fighting back and I did not want anything to happen to my partner." Justice Sharma was quoted saying that Marcano must have believed that his friend was under pressure and needed help. "The law permits him to intervene, perhaps if he had not intervened his friend might have been the deceased." With classic homophobic mini-mindedness, the Judge proclaimed: "The acts themselves were so unnatural that they would have caused a certain reaction." The Trinidad Guardian reports that the two friends also stole some electric items from the Lynch home which they later sold. The thefts were, apparently, deemed irrelevant in the Appeal Court's notable decision. |
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