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Article: RIGHTS OF GAYS BACKED JUDGE SAYS ASSAILANTS VIOLATED CIVIL RIGHTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 4, 1987
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A Roxbury District Court judge yesterday extended
constitutional civil rights protection to homosexuals, a decision
described by police and some legal specialists as potentially
far-reaching in its impact.
The decision by Judge Gordon A. Martin Jr. involves the case
of two Plymouth men, Jeffrey Nelson, 19, and Jonathan Miller, 18.
The judge found Nelson and Miller guilty of assault and battery and
violating the civil rights of Jason Schneider, 28, who was attacked
on the Fenway Sept. 17.
The two men yesterday chose to go to a second trial before a
six-person jury, rejecting an offer by the judge to allow them to
pay about $140 in fines and court costs, undergo supervised ...