Marissa Alexander, Sentenced to 20 Years for Firing One Shot into the Ceiling, Gets a Retrial

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Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman who was sentenced to an unnerving 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot that didn't hurt anyone, received some heartening news this week: Her conviction has been overturned and she's getting a new trial. Alexander's case came to prominence in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial, used by activists opposed to "stand your ground" laws to point out how inconsistently they are applied. The police initially failed to charge Zimmerman with murder, using "stand your ground" as a rationale. Alexander, on the other hand, has a story closer to the ideal self-defense experience "stand your ground" is supposed to cover: She claims her husband was chasing her through the house, beating her and threatening her life. She fired a shot into the ceiling, hitting no one, but was arrested anyway.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto..._ground_she_claimed_self_defense_but_was.html

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Shouldn't have been given dat bullshyt sentence in da first place.

 

[Diondon]

 

[C-NICE]

20 years and no wounding anybody the judges need to be held more accountable for this bs that goes on with people and their freedom

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

20 years and no wounding anybody the judges need to be held more accountable for this bs that goes on with black people and their freedom

*fixed*

 

[C-NICE]

*fixed*

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Safely walk away from a hostile situation and come back with a loaded gun from your car and fire it in a house full of children then say you did it because the person you had time to walk away from was an immediate threat to you brehs

 

[A.R.$]

Bout fukking time. They better let this woman off

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Safely walk away from a hostile situation and come back with a loaded gun from your car and fire it in a house full of children then say you did it because the person you had time to walk away from was an immediate threat to you brehs

Be inundated with facebook, tumblr and twitter lawyers likening this case to Trayvon Martin's even though it's a false equivalency brehs

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Be inundated with facebook, tumblr and twitter lawyers likening this case to Trayvon Martin's even though it's a false equivalency brehs

Have no idea what you're talking about, brehs.

 

[ryshy]

20 years and no wounding anybody the judges need to be held more accountable for this bs that goes on with people and their freedom

if the judges were accountable for all the BS theyve done, we'd have a lot of positions to replace

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Have no idea what you're talking about, brehs.

Lol I know you don't know. Neither does the millions of people who liken this case to George Zimmermans. Apples and Oranges. She was completely in the wrong. Read the details. She was not in imminent danger. She had an opportunity to flea. She retrieved a weapon and returned to face off with her "attacker"..

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Lol I know you don't know. Neither does the millions of people who liken this case to George Zimmermans. Apples and Oranges. She was completely in the wrong. Read the details. She was not in imminent danger. She had an opportunity to flea. She retrieved a weapon and returned to face off with her "attacker"..

I know exactly. It sounded like you were saying the opposite. I agree, she .

 

[C-NICE]

I know exactly. It sounded like you were saying the opposite. I agree, she .

But 20 years breh 2 decades 7,300 days 175,200 hours for firing not wounding is a little outrageous don't you think.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

20 years and no wounding anybody thedges need to be held more accountable for this bs that goes on with people and their freedom

Nah it actually wasn't the judge's fault his hands were tied. It's the fault of the FL legislature who came up with these retarded mandatory minimum laws. A lot of states have them.

She choose to forego a plea deal and fight the case with a stand your ground defense, and when she lost, the mandatory minimum that states you get an automatic 20 years for firing a gun while committing a felony kicks in and the judge has no discretion to reduce it.

In a sane world, she wouldn't gotten about 30 days on jail, a fine, and some probation.