>
> For the above article or the two posts, we must go deeper than the
> definitions in order to see internal hypocrisy.
>
> If you hypocroties think that only other ethnic group caused trouble,
> please read the following stories:
>
> Smuggled drugs
> LAO-AMERICAN - DRUGS: The DEA with the cooperation of local police
> arrested 29 members of an international drug-trafficking organization
> and seized more than 65,000 Ecstasy tablets. Officer Mark Bishop of
> the Marietta Police Department told VOA that during the course of an
> investigation, the DEA identified a Marietta police officer of Lao
> descent as possibly involved in the drug ring. Thirty-year-old Isaac
> Saleumsy, a two-year Marietta police veteran, is among those behind
> bars after police made arrests in Georgia, Tennessee, California and
> Ontario, Canada. Investigators charged Saleumsy with conspiracy to
> possess Ecstasy with intent to distribute. Two other Lao-Americans of
> the Atlanta, Georgia, area were among those arrested on November 27.
> ***********************
>
> New York Times:
> A Laotian refugee convicted of murdering his wife in a jealous rage
> must get a new trial, the state's top court has ruled, saying the
> judge should have allowed testimony about the ''stress and
> disorientation'' of assimilating into American life.
>
> The unanimous decision by the Court of Appeals throws out the second-
> degree murder conviction of May Aphaylath, 28 years old, of Rochester,
> who is serving a sentence of 15 years to life at Attica State Prison
> for the December 1982 killing of his Laotian wife of one month, Loti.
>
> At his trial, where he acknowledged that he fatally stabbed his wife,
> Mr. May Aphaylath had sought to use ''extreme emotional disturbance''
> as a legal defense.
>
> Mr. May Aphaylath argued that his wife brought shame on him and his
> family through her display of affection for another man and her
> receiving telephone calls from the man. The shame, he argued, led to
> his loss of control. 'Significant Mental Trauma'
>
> In addition, Mr. May Aphaylath contended that the stresses resulting
> from his status as a refugee ''caused a significant mental trauma,
> affecting his mind for a substantial period of time, simmering in the
> unknowing subconscious and then inexplicably coming to the fore,''
> even though the immediate cause of the killing was his jealousy, the
> Court of Appeals said in its written decision.
>
> The Court of Appeals ruled that Mr. May Aphaylath, who had left Laos
> about two years before the killing, had been deprived of a fair trial
> by State Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Pine of Rochester.
>
> The appeals court said Justice Pine had acted improperly when she
> refused to allow two expert defense witnesses to testify about ''the
> stress and disorientation encountered by Laotian refugees in
> attempting to assimilate into the American culture.''
>
> The only way for Mr. May Aphaylath to back up his defense would be for
> him to present witnesses testifying about the problems faced by
> Laotian refugees in the United States, the Court of Appeals said.
> Suicide Attempt
>
> The decision, announced Thursday, overturns a lower level appeals
> court ruling.
>
> When the police arrived at Mr. May Aphaylath's home after his wife's
> killing they found he had tried to commit suicide by taking pills and
> attempting to hang himself. The police found him unconscious, hanging
> from a piece of clothesline tied to a tree branch.
>
> At his trial, Mr. May Aphaylath testified that his wife began taunting
> him and using her former boyfriend as an example of what her husband
> should be.
>
> ''She said she wanted to marry Nunh,'' he said, referring to the
> former boyfriend and speaking through an interpreter. ''After she said
> that, I've got a knife in my hand, so I go through her.'' A witness
> from the Monroe County Medical Examiner's office said the victim had
> been stabbed 16 times.
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>
> A fight broke out between some Laotian men and two Mexican men, ... an
> interpreter from the Department of Refugee Services in Des Moines,
> IOWA.
>
>
http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/171/171.F3d.614.98-1499.html
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>
> People v. Aphaylath
> A Laotian refugee, May Aphaylath had been living in the United States
> for two years when he married his wife. (7) One month into the
> marriage, his wife continued to accept phone calls from her former
> boyfriend and to display affection for this other man. (8) Her
> behavior brought shame upon May Aphaylath and his family. When she
> received yet another phone call from her former boyfriend, May
> repeatedly stabbed his new bride to death. (9)
>
>
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6146553/Culture-as-justificat...
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>
> 4 members of Laotian gang charged following drug
stinghttp://www.vientianetimes.com/Stories/2007/04282007_4_members_of_laot...
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>
> Communities Held Hostage A Profile of A Laotian Street Gang in Dallas
> Ron Cowart and Melinda F.
Cowarthttp://ccj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/12/4/307
> Asian gangs ESPECIALLY LAOTIAN pose new problems for police
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