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One week after a mistrial was declared in the murder case of Gwen Araujo, a California superior court approved a posthumous name change for the slain transgender teenager who was savagely beaten and strangled in October 2002. Jurors deadlocked over whether Araujo's attackers were guilty of first or second degree murder. According to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, none of the jurors were willing to settle for the lesser offense of manslaughter, in spite of efforts by defense attorneys to argue that Araujo's killers were somehow justified because she did not disclose her transgender identity to them.

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