A man accused of a 2008 murder is pursuing a controversial "gay-panic" defense in a Philadelphia court. Sara Jacobson, director of trial advocacy at Temple's Beasley School of Law, said there were no specific provisions for the gay-panic defense under the state criminal code unless it's used in conjunction with insanity or self-defense. In her 10 years as a city public defender, Jacobson said, she never saw it employed. "It strikes me as a defense theory that gets substituted for self-defense when self-defense isn't a good defense theory," she said.