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mandatory penalty enhancements take discretion from judges and can bite justice in the ass.
Florida State Attorney Angela Coreys (same chick prosecuting Zimmerman for Trayvon) beyond spineless decision to go after Marissa Alexander and give her 20 years with "under the sentencing guidelines Alexander would not be granted early release or opportunities for parole."
Can a Gov step in now or does he have to wait for....
"Relatives of Alexander say she plans to appeal and intends to take her case to Florida's clemency board, which has broad powers to reduce sentences or even pardon convicted criminals."
All for firing a __king warning shot that came no where near her abusive husband who had just threatened to kill her? Oh and as to that jewel, Rico Gray, was arrested in 2006 and 2009 on charges of domestic battery.
More on Gray: ‘I got five baby mammas, and I put my hands on every last one of them except for one,” Rico Gray confessed during a November 2010 deposition. “The way I was with women . . . they had to walk on eggs s around me.” He recalled punching women in the face, shoving them, choking them and tossing them out the door.
tf?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/othervi...-20-years.html
http://news.yahoo.com/stand-ground-d...030038820.html
mandatory penalty enhancements take discretion from judges and can bite justice in the ass.
^ hence my q.
Can a Gov step in now or does he have to wait for....
Florida's clemency board
Dunno. I'm slightly familiar with Florida, totally ignorant of the customs there.
If only Florida had the Castle Clause like Texas
Updated: Marissa Alexander Is Given No Bail Today - New Evidence Comes To Court
Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who was sentenced to 20 years for firing a warning shot to ward off her abusive husband, was granted no bail Wednesday afternoon in a Jacksonville courtroom. The mother of three will most likely not get to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with her children, as the 'deciding judge' opted to make no decision and set another hearing for January 15, 2012 - pending of course, that he does, or does not, change his mind.In 2010, just days after giving birth, Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot in self-defense to keep her abusive husband, Rico Gray, from attacking her.
In his deposition, Gray who has a history of abusing Alexander, admitted it, stated he intended to hurt her had she not fired the warning shot, and said she did the right thing. He also said Alexander did not aim he gun at him. Gray then changed his story once the case went to trial.
He walked out a free man - Marissa Alexander, the battered wife, received 20 years. The Florida Stand Your Ground Law did not work for Alexander because she fired a warning shot. Had she shot and killed Rico Gray that day, she would have most likely served no time at all.
My source who was in the courtroom today, reported new evidence has been brought forth - a text message of Rico Gray asking Marissa to come over for sex while there was an order of protection. Rico Gray claims Marissa should not be let out on bond because he is afraid of Marissa; he fears/feared for his life. Does asking her for sex sound like someone who feared for his life?
“I was in a rage. I called her a and and . . . I told her, you know, I used to always tell her that, if I can’t have you, nobody going to have you. It was not the first time of ever saying it to her.”~ Rico Gray in his deposition on November 22, 2010.
Again, does this sound like a man fearing for his life?Marissa Alexander's case has been highly publicized from the start, and the Free Marissa Now campaign has grown throughout social media. The case was catapulted into even more national spotlight, following the George Zimmerman case. In July 2013, Zimmerman was set free after killing teenager, Trayvon Martin, even though Zimmerman was the aggressor. Ironically, the same state attorney that failed to successfully prosecute George Zimmerman, is the same attorney that sent Marissa Alexander to prison. State Attorney Angela Corey 'twisted the knife' by refusing to drop Alexander's case,even after it was overturned in September.
Unless something changes, it doesn't look as though Marissa Alexander and her three children will be having happy holidays, as she awaits a new bail hearing, and then a whole new trial in March 2014. Supposedly the next trial will be different. This time, Florida courts say the burden of proof will be placed upon them rather than Marissa Alexander. Isn't that how it's supposed to work, Florida?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/1...n?detail=email
Repug Confederate FL SYG is for killing the n!gg@s who cannot claim SYG defense.
Typo or old article?set another hearing for January 15, 2012
article dated yesterday, probably a typo
Florida gun laws are AWESOME!
typo. linked to article also dated Nov 13: http://thegrio.com/2013/11/13/mariss...ision-on-bond/
Marissa Alexander Now Faces 60 Years in Prison for Firing a Warning Shot in Self Defense
Florida State Attorney Angela Corey will seek to triple Marissa Alexander’s original prison sentence from twenty to sixty years, effectively a life sentence for the 33-year-old woman, when her case is retried this July, The Florida Times-Union reports.
Alexander was convicted on three charges of aggravated assault in 2012 for firing warning shots in the direction of Rico Gray, her estranged husband, and his two children. No one was hurt.
Alexander’s attorneys argued that she had the right to self-defense after Gray physically assaulted and threatned to kill her the day of the shooting. In a deposition, Gray confessed to a history of abusing women, including Alexander.
In September of 2013 a District Appeals court threw out the conviction on grounds that Circuit Judge James Daniel erroneously placed the burden on Alexander to prove she acted in self-defense, when she only had to meet a “reasonable doubt concerning self-defense.”
Judge Daniel originally slapped Alexander with three twenty-year prison sentences, but ordered that they be served concurrently. If Alexander is convicted a second time in July, State Attorney Angela Corey will seek consecutive sentences, adding up to sixty years in prison.
Florida’s 10-20-Life law imposes a mandatory minimum of twenty years in prison for anyone who fires a gun while committing a felony. Angela Corey’s prosecution team says it is following a court ruling that multiple convictions for related charges under 10-20-Life should carry consecutive sentences.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/178641...t-self-defense
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-07-2014 at 09:48 AM.
Marissa Alexander denied new Stand Your Ground hearing, still faces up to 60 years in prison
A Florida judge has denied Marissa Alexander a new self-defense hearing, finding that the recent addition of a “warning shot” provision to the state’s so-called Stand Your Ground law could not be applied retroactively. The law allows a person to fire without retreat if they have a “reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.” Alexander, a survivor of domestic violence who says she fired a warning shot at a wall to fend off her abusive husband Rico Gray after he threatened to kill her, was denied immunity in her first hearing. She was later convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.
As Irin Carmon at MSNBC points out, Alexander’s lawyers argued that evidence not previously introduced — one of Gray’s children recanted his testimony, expert testimony on ‘battered women’s syndrome” and Gray’s history of domestic violence and lying to law enforcement — warranted a second hearing. But Circuit Judge James Daniel wrote that the evidence did not merit a new hearing because “the basic outlines of her claim and [Gray’s] claim have not changed at all.”
The case will now go to trial, and it will be left to a jury to decide if Alexander had a “reasonable fear of imminent peril” when Gray broke through the door of the bathroom where she was hiding during a domestic violence incident, grabbed her by the neck, choked her and shoved her to the floor. Alexander said that Gray had threatened to kill her when she tried to escape through the garage, but found herself trapped when the garage door wouldn’t open. She returned to the house having retrieved a gun and fired at a wall near where Gray stood. No one was harmed.
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/22/mari...ars_in_prison/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353633/angela-coreys-checkered-past-ian-tuttle
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