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Woman goes to jail for 20 years for firing warning shots against an abusive husband, against which she had an ORDER OF PROTECTION.
Ok this is when you know there's a Gun Grabbing Agenda:
Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots - CBS News
Apparently she would have EASILY acquitted if she shot and killed hi and was able to prove he was a threat...
We live in a sick world.
It's a sick world where a woman can beat up her husband, then shoot and him and their children and then...horror of horror's....has to answer for it?
Yeah...really sick...ain't it?
If she did not hit him they cannot prove that she shot at him
Oh, yes they can. If they know where she was, where he was, and where the bullets hit, it's a fairly simple deduction. Obviously, the jury sure thought they could.
Woman goes to jail for 20 years for firing warning shots against an abusive husband, against which she had an ORDER OF PROTECTION.
Ok this is when you know there's a Gun Grabbing Agenda:
Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots - CBS News
Apparently she would have EASILY acquitted if she shot and killed hi and was able to prove he was a threat...
We live in a sick world.
It's a sick world where a woman can beat up her husband, then shoot and him and their children and then...horror of horror's....has to answer for it?
Yeah...really sick...ain't it?
My mistake, she was convicted of 3 counts of arr. assault with a deadly weapon, not attempted murder.
The article said attempted murder. Are you sure the 3 counts of aggravated assault isn't what she was offered as a plea deal?
Since she shot at him nine times and hit him six times, this defense didn't work out well. She served 12 years.
She was not convicted of attempted murder nor do I believe, from what I've read, that was her intent.
Obviously, but of course, juries can, and have, got it wrong. My point was to ridicule the prosecutors who said she didn't fire a warning shot because she didn't fire up into the ceiling. That makes no sense.
Such that it warrants a jail sentence, no. Outside of some extraordinary circumstance where a big ass woman actually beats up a meeker man, any guy can prevent being 'beat up' by a woman. I suspect he made this claim to help convict her. No real man would admit to such a thing, much less use it to prosecute a female. It's pathetic.
I understand this, which is why I condemned minimum sentencing.
Bottom line, no one, IMO, should get 20 years if they hurt no one or didn't take something that didn't belong to them. I find the very idea immoral.
Oh, yes they can. If they know where she was, where he was, and where the bullets hit, it's a fairly simple deduction. Obviously, the jury sure thought they could.
A black woman convicted by a white jury (just one black man on jury).
Marissa Alexander was convicted by a jury of three women and three men, one of them an African-American woman like Marissa.
"It took them 13 minutes," Lincoln said of the jury. "They didn't ask to look at anything. They pretty much made their decision in ten minutes that she was guilty."
At the very least she should get a retrial for a fucked jury.
Marissa Alexander case exposes ambiguity of ?Stand Your Ground? law-Joy-Ann Reid, The Grio | Rodney L. Hurst, Sr.
We live in a sick world.
It's a sick world where a woman can beat up her husband, then shoot and him and their children and then...horror of horror's....has to answer for it?
Yeah...really sick...ain't it?
But she didn't shoot him or his children. Nobody was shot. Nobody was hurt.
My mistake, she was convicted of 3 counts of arr. assault with a deadly weapon, not attempted murder.
The article said attempted murder. Are you sure the 3 counts of aggravated assault isn't what she was offered as a plea deal?
Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case - CNN.com
Yup. Everything I've read says 3 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Our own, personal opinions don't matter.
Our own, personal opinions don't matter.
Clearly. But that doesn't mean we can share our opinion!
In my humble opinion, I do not believe anyone should face 20 years in jail for a 'crime' in which nobody was hurt and nothing was taken. Just my opinion, which I understand doesn't matter to the courts.
From what I've read, it was not an attempted murder charge but aggravated assault. I don't see how you can assault someone without hurting them.
Our own, personal opinions don't matter.
Clearly. But that doesn't mean we can share our opinion!
In my humble opinion, I do not believe anyone should face 20 years in jail for a 'crime' in which nobody was hurt and nothing was taken. Just my opinion, which I understand doesn't matter to the courts.
From what I've read, it was not an attempted murder charge but aggravated assault. I don't see how you can assault someone without hurting them.
Depending upon the state, assault can include even verbal assault if it puts the victim in fear of bodily harm.
Zero Tolerence laws never work out well. I agree 20 years is a lot, in my state she probably would have got 5 and been out in 3.
Lol @ the Op for crying about gun grabbing and not reading his own story.
CBS News) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville had said the state's "Stand Your Ground" law should apply to her because she was defending herself against her allegedly abusive husband when she fired warning shots inside her home in August 2010. She told police it was to escape a brutal beating by her husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.
CBS Affiliate WETV reports that Circuit Court Judge James Daniel handed down the sentence Friday.
Under Florida's mandatory minimum sentencing requirements Alexander could receive a lesser sentence, even though she has never been in trouble with the law before. Judge Daniel said the law did not allow for extenuating or mitigating circumstances to reduce the sentence below the 20-year minimum.
"I really was crying in there," Marissa's 11-year-old daughter told WETV. "I didn't want to cry in court, but I just really feel hurt. I don't think this should have been happening."
Alexander was convicted of attempted murder after she rejected a plea deal for a three-year prison sentence. She said she did not believe she did anything wrong.
She was recently denied a new trial after appealing to the judge to reconsider her case based on Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law. The law states that the victim of a crime does not have to attempt to run for safety and can immediately retaliate in self-defense.
Alexander's attorney said she was clearly defending herself and should not have to spend the next two decades behind bars.
Alexander's case has drawn support from domestic abuse advocates - and comparison to the case of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who has claimed a "Stand Your Ground" defense in his fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
