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The death of Jennifer Laude (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈlaʊdɛ]) occurred on October 11, 2014, in Olongapo, Philippines, when the 26-year-old Filipino trans woman was killed by Joseph Scott Pemberton, a 19-year-old Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps.[2] Pemberton admitted assaulting Laude and deployed a trans panic defense in his 2015 trial.[3] His charge was downgraded from murder to homicide by a judge in 2015, and he was convicted on December 1, 2015. Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte granted an absolute pardon to Pemberton in September 2020.[4]
