A 33-year-old woman could end up in prison for 60 years when she’s retried for firing a shot in the direction of her estranged husband and two of his children. Marissa Alexander was convicted in 2012 on three counts of…
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Melissa Harris Perry wrote an open letter to Florida’s Prosecutor Angela Cory – the same Angela Cory who sent Marissa Alexander to jail for 20 years for firing a warning shot to scare off her abusive husband, and the same…
Marissa Alexander used Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law in her case to fight off her abusive husband. She was prosecuted by Angela Corey, whose prosecution team was responsible for putting on the lack-luster event in a Florida courtroom, that allowed…
Marissa Alexander, the African-American woman who was sentenced to 20 years for discharging a firearm in Florida despite pleading Stand Your Ground against her husband, will get a new trial. Alexander, 32, said she fired a bullet at the ceiling because…