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Do you think the case of Marissa Alexander was overkill, to make a point or just racist.?

This woman, in Florida, received 20 years of prison time for firing into the ceiling to ward off her abusive husband who was threatening to kill her. The jury gave her 20 years, she wouldn't accept a plea deal for 2 or 3 years. She was also denied a retrial. She has already spent 2 years in prison. Her estranged dirtbag husband admits he abuses all of his girlfriends. So why was her crime so harshly judged? By the way she tried that "stand your ground" defense, apparently it didn't work for her.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    You naive idiots with the racist comments to prove a point, give it up already.

  • 9 years ago

    Both overkill and racist. Zimmerman killed an unarmed child that was walking AWAY from him in the same county of the same state and was seen by the same judge, Angela Corey. Yet Zimmerman is walking right now. This woman, who was a trained gun handler, shot into the wall after her attacker said, "I'm gonna kill you *****!" and moved towards her. Even IF she had intended to kill him, she still did NOT kill him. If someone who has a history of domestic violence against you attacks you and says they are going to kill you (he hospitalized her in the past), then shooting at them (and intentionally missing) seems logical.

    To those saying "get the facts" you can check out her support page where we have posted multiple resources for checking facts on this case.

    Source(s): Her support group (I'm the head admin there): http://www.facebook.com/SupportForMarissaAlexander A great article on the bigger problem: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/20/149441/leona...
  • 9 years ago

    NOTHING in your statement implies race had anything to do with this case.

    The reason 'stand your ground' does not apply is that she DID NOT act in self defense. Shooting the husband could have counted as self defense. Intentionally shooting anywhere else does not. As you chose to omit ALL of the important information in the case, and did not provide a link to find any, it is difficult to determine what charges, if any were justified.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    To be person-pleasant, i have no longer considered ANY of the "Stand Your floor" supporters quite wrap their hands round any case; in reality, it really is the warring parties of the regulation who've wrapped their hands round the capturing of Trayvon Martin, and to a lesser volume, the thrashing that Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim allegedly laid on 15 three hundred and sixty 5 days previous black youngster Corey Ausby in Baltimore, to point that the regulation must be repealed. "ought to the meant "self-protection circulation" be ignoring her case because (whisper it now) she's a woman?" Oh c'mon...it quite is a stretch, even for you! I propose Mary Winkler shot her dozing husband to lack of life with a shotgun...and she served a grand total of seven months of confinement for that crime...are you quite going to take a seat down there and take a look into to declare that supporters of that regulation have an aversion to armed women human beings??? "and ought to it really is that a number of her previous proceedings were disregarded through cops because (whisper it quite low now) she's black?" Now it quite is a threat...yet frankly, I evaluate that article to be too politicized for me to take at face value. I propose the author of it makes use of the guy's very last call, notwithstanding the first names of the lady, and her ex-husband (who helps her) throughout. That tells me that really than being unbiased, he's made up his ideas, and he's attempting to inspire us to trust what he's spinning.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Get your facts straight first. After an argument, she went out to her car, got a gun, came back in the house, and shot at him and missed.

    That's not self defense, and race had nothing to do with the decision to charge or convict

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