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Free Marissa Alexander

Free Marissa Alexander

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 2 months ago
Marissa Alexander is serving “mandatory twenty year sentence,” for shooting a warning shot into the air after her abusive husband, Rico Gray, threatened to kill her. Nobody was hurt in that case. Alexander unsuccessfully tried to use Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" as her defense, but a jury convicted her of aggravated assault after ONLY 12 minutes of deliberation. In a deposition for the case against Alexander, Gray backed up much of his wife's story. "I told her if she ever cheated on me, I would kill her," he said during the proceeding led by a prosecutor for State Attorney Angela Corey's office and his wife's defense attorney. Later, At the hearing, he denied threatening to kill his wife, adding, "I begged and pleaded for my life when she had the gun."

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Mike Espinoza
13 years ago Featured

FREE HER NOW. The man literally admitted he threatened her but she is the one locked up? Total joke.

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Sarah Frost
13 years ago Featured

This is completely wrong. She was just defending herself against an abuser and now she gets 20 years? Justice system is broken.

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