As a justice in Cortez.

As a justice in Cortez, Colo., sentenced 19-year-old Shaun Murphy to 40 years in prison for the homicide of transgendered teenager Fred C Martinez Jr it was Martinez's mother who got the last word. "All you at all times said was, you bug-smashed a fag," Pauline Mitchell said to Murphy at the June 3 sentencing, referring to boasts he made after the slay "You felt the rock break his cranium and you left him to die." She later asked Murphy "Why can't others allow our lov single in kinds to live their lives and expres themselves freely?" The 16-year-old Martinez, who was Navajo, was lay the foundation of bludgeoned to death outside Cortez upon June 21, 2001.

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