Breaking News! Marissa Alexander is free from jail in time to spend Thanksgiving with family (573 hits)
Breaking News! Marissa Alexander is free from jail in time to spend Thanksgiving with family she has not seen for much of the last three years.
The Florida woman – who had been serving a 20-year sentence for firing what she described as a warning shot at her abusive husband – was released from jail Wednesday night, according to a report from First Coast News. Her bond was set at $200,009.
Marissa Alexander is free from jail in time to spend Thanksgiving with family she has not seen for much of the last three years.
The Florida woman – who had been serving a 20-year sentence for firing what she described as a warning shot at her abusive husband – was released from jail Wednesday night, according to a report from First Coast News. Her bond was set at $200,009.
Although no one was injured in the incident, a jury convicted Alexander of multiple counts of aggravated assault with a firearm in 2012, requiring a 20 year sentence thanks to Florida’s “10-20-Life” law, which sets mandatory minimum sentences for crimes committed with a gun. Her conviction was overturned in September when a judge ordered a retrial after finding that the jury instructions in her original trial were erroneous and had unfairly put the burden on Alexander to prove that she had fired her shot in self-defense.
Alexander has spent more than 1,000 days behind bars, according to her lawyers’ count, keeping her away from her youngest child for most of the first three years of her life.
The organizers behind the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign cheered her release in a statement Thursday on the group’s Facebook page.
“We are thrilled that Ms. Alexander will be able to prepare for her new trial amid the support and love of her children and family from whom she has been separated far too long,” the statement read. “The Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign is more determined than ever to win complete exoneration for Marissa Alexander.”
I HOPE THE SITE CARRYS ALL OF HER TRIAL AS IT IS GOING TO BE A ONE OF A KIND AND THIS TIME IT WILL NOT ONLY BR FAIR BUT SHE WILL HAVE HER PEERS NOT CHOSEN FRO POLITICL REASSONS BUT FOR PROTECTING ANY AND ALL WHO WILL FOLLOW IN HER FOOT STEPS WHICH MEANS L-O-N-G- TERM...
FL. IS GOING TO DO THEIR BEST, BUT AFTR TRAVON MARTIN, THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THE DA'S OFFICE WILL GET A SECOND CHANCE TO LIMIT HIS/ HER EFFORTS TO SATISFY THEIR JOBS AND WILL HOLD CORT TO MAKE SURE THEIR NEIGHBORS WILL WIANT THEM TO REMAIN IN THEIR ALL WHITE PURE COMMUNITY!!!
NATIONA NAACP HAS JUST ALLOWED THAT TO HAPPEN BUT NEVER, EVER AGAIN AS THEY ARE OUT FRONT AND CENTER ON DOING THE RESEARCH FROM START TO FINISH!!!...
THE GOVERNOR OF FL. JUST NEEDS TO GO FIND A CORNOR O SIT THIS ONW OUT AS HJIS JOB HAS GONE BY, BY ALREADY...
"YES WE CAN"...YES WE ALWAYS WILL DO...IT JUS TOOK TOO LONG TO GET ENOUGH NET TRAFFICT GETTING TRAVON MARTIN'S CASE OUT THERE IN AN IN YOUR FACE MANNER...BUT THIS HAS PROVEN TO BE A BENEFIT IN THE LONG TERM AND SHORT TERM FOR ZIMMERMAN...
WE DID GOOD....NOW WE HAVE LEARNED HOW TO DO IT PERFECTLY...JUST BY KEEPING IT ALIVE AND OUT THERE...SO THANKS...(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
