How in HELL does this constitute exculpatory material? Apparently, in the view of Mississippi, being someone who reads gay porn may mean that someone is justified in killing you. It's better than the plain old gay panic defense -- "Oh, he made a pass at me, so he had to die" -- this is the gay porn panic defense -- "Oh, he wanted me to pose for naughty pictures, and showed me some of what he wanted, so for that he had to die."
I'd hope a jury would give that defense all it was due, but then, given that Mississippi's state supreme court said that it constituted a valid defense in the first place, I don't have much hope about that.
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