In one recent, highly controversial Florida sentencing, Marissa Alexander, an African-American woman in Jacksonville with no previous criminal record, was sentenced to 20 years for firing a pistol twice into the air while trying to ward off an attack by her abusive husband. Denied the protection of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, the 31-year-old mother of three was convicted of aggravated assault, a felony, and given the mandatory sentence for anyone who fires a gun in commission of the felony.
Davis's sentencing has not generated the same degree of public interest.
something is amiss. So, she fires a pistol in the air, and she gets 20 years? a) Who is defending these people? b) was the gun illegal? 
I am still in shock from reading this.