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I’m no legal expert, but I do know cases of domestic violence against women. Why do males get away with such horrible human crimes, whats wrong with American society and the judicial system especially in Florida?
Marissa Alexander: Punished by a male society
From Smoking Hot politics by Julie Driscoll
I’d like to ask these cops in Florida who arrested and charged abuse victim Marissa Alexander, this judge who recently denied abuse victim Marissa Alexander a new trial, if they know what it’s like to dodge and duck and flee from an abusive male partner, if they know what it’s like to be frozen in place for fear the slightest movement will result in a fist to your face, if they have any clue what an abused woman goes through when she stays, and the heightened terror of a much worse scenario if she tries to leave.
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law is an abomination – especially since it serves to protect killers like George Zimmerman and fails to protect abused women like Marissa Alexander. The law is simple: If you fear for your life or safety, you have the absolute right to shoot your attacker in self-defense. The law defends your right to self-protection, and there’s no duty to retreat.
But for Marissa Alexander – the petite Florida woman who for years was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband, Rico Gray, a woman who relied on the “Stand Your Ground” law and discharged a weapon in his vicinity, a woman who is now facing 20 years in prison for defending herself against a serial abuser – the “Stand Your Ground” law became the “Shut Up and Take It” law. Marissa Alexander hurt no one, killed no one; this terrified woman simply discharged a weapon into the ceiling to deter her enraged husband, and her husband – the abuser – called the police and made the claim that she fired a gun at him and his sons.
No, Marissa Alexander isn’t being punished for discharging a gun at a ceiling – she’s being punished because of the much-repeated myth that “she must like it or she wouldn’t have gone back.” She’s being punished by those with the mindset that returning to her abuser somehow makes it her fault.
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Next time, best put that single bullit squarely between the eyes.
Still more below the fold …
Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case
(CNN) – After the sentencing, Rep. Corrine Brown confronted State Attorney Angela Corey in the hallway, accusing her of being overzealous, according to video from CNN affiliate WJXT.
“There is no justification for 20 years,” Brown told Corey during an exchange frequently interrupted by onlookers. “All the community was asking for was mercy and justice,” she said.
Corey said she had offered Alexander a plea bargain that would have resulted in a three-year prison sentence, but Alexander chose to take the case to a jury trial, where a conviction would carry a mandatory sentence under a Florida law known as “10-20-life.”
The law mandates increased penalties for some felonies, including aggravated assault, in which a gun is carried or used.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
