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In reply to the discussion: COURT FINALLY OVERTURNS MARISSA ALEXANDER’S 20 YEAR SENTENCE. [View all]msanthrope
(37,549 posts)278. She's not a square peg....she's a criminal. nt
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I fear you're right. I found this article that seems to cast doubt on her chances:
NYC_SKP
Oct 2014
#379
Again, if you ever live life inside a dwelling as a woman with an enraged partner
truedelphi
Oct 2014
#241
MY aren't we special? After all, inter galactic avengers are a dime a dozen,
truedelphi
Oct 2014
#323
That is typical in abusive situations, abusers manipulate everyone around them
Tumbulu
Oct 2014
#216
And despite your rudeness and crudeness, I am neither silly nor telling lies about you.
merrily
Oct 2014
#292
Good lord. Read for comprehension, please. I was not accusing you of getting paid or of
merrily
Oct 2014
#294
Oh, please. Not everyone gets alerted on and not everyone posts the way he's been posting either.
merrily
Oct 2014
#299
You've had many other replies. This is the last. Sorry to have disappointed you,
merrily
Oct 2014
#304
No back pedal whatsoever. Amost anyone reading Reply 285 would get that I never accused you
merrily
Oct 2014
#303
that's probably one of the more misogynist posts I've read throughout this debate.
redruddyred
Oct 2014
#353
She had the right to come back. Once she came back, she had the right to stand her ground.n/t
ieoeja
Oct 2014
#69
Except she walked through the door and opened fire. That is not standing your ground.
hack89
Oct 2014
#74
Walking back into a house and pointing a gun at three people, for starters. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2014
#169
If she ran into him the next day and there was no threatening, physical violence,
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#77
Yes...that's what she was convicted of. And she will be convicted of, again. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2014
#259
Stand Your Ground for a black person, a woman even? Holy cow. Is this all to get
valerief
Oct 2014
#24
Of course he applies the self-defense standard. SYG does not apply here--the Florida courts have
msanthrope
Oct 2014
#113
Funny...the door opened to put her car in, and when the police tried it. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2014
#149
He said that after she violated a court order to tamper with his testimony.
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2014
#152
She walked past the front door as she went into the garage to get her gun from her car
hack89
Oct 2014
#40
you are absolutely right it doesn't make sense but its exactly what abused women do again and again
kmlisle
Oct 2014
#247
Still this is part of a pattern in which the criminal justice system treats women and people of
kmlisle
Oct 2014
#272
It can drive a person wild considering the difference in treatment between Marissa Alexander's case
Judi Lynn
Oct 2014
#26
she may have been stupid, but that doesn't make her the principal aggressor.
redruddyred
Oct 2014
#204
He wasn't beating on her that day, her life was NOT in imminent danger that day,
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#357
why aren't you advocating him serving a minimum sentence for the serial abuse?
Tumbulu
Oct 2014
#224
if her husband had been in jail in the first place, none of this would have happened.
redruddyred
Oct 2014
#354
If Marissa was in the process of being beaten, I would have applauded her for shooting him
Lurks Often
Oct 2014
#359
The jury found her testimony completely unreliable, they took only 12 minutes to convict her.
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#363
Their mind is made up based on whatever initial poor reporting they listened to.
NOVA_Dem
Oct 2014
#63
Yes, she is. She might get off due to trial publicity, but it's a long shot. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2014
#116
The pretrial SYG ruling indicates that she had a restraining order against him.
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2014
#314
Oh and he let her in and cooked her breakfast- so why didn't he call the police when she arrived?
Tumbulu
Oct 2014
#190
You should probably educate yourself on this case before posting what you believe to be the "facts".
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#197
So... you'd have killed him. Fair enough. What would you have done with the witnesses? n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2014
#230
well, that is some good news. but the whole trial was a freaking obscenity, and would never
niyad
Oct 2014
#215
No, she fired at his head, narrowly missing him, the bullet traveled through the wall
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#319
Perhaps you'll consider it less of an obscenity once you familiarize yourself with the case...
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2014
#321
I have not seen a worse case of deliberate disinformation since Crystal Mangum.
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2014
#229
Even if every bad thing written about her happens to be true, 20 years is still excessive. n/t
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#328