A judge has acquitted one Jackson County teen charged in an attack on a lesbian classmate, signaling the potential for a similar verdict in the case of two other young women accused in the case. District Judge Henria Bailey-Lewis acquitted the juvenile at her trial on Monday. The girl’s name has not been released because she was 17 in April, when the alleged crime occurred. Her trial was closed, but her attorney, Sharon K. Allen Gay, said she received permission to release information about the verdict.

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