Stand Your Ground

[HairOfTheDog]

She didn't pull a gun during a crime.

She violated a gun law at worst. The judge and the states attorney should lose their jobs.

Glad to see the 20 year sentence is being revisited. I think it was way too much as well.



TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida appeals court is ordering a new trial for a woman sentenced to 20 years to prison after she fired a warning shot in a wall during a dispute with her husband.

The 1^st District Court of Appeal ruled that a judge did not properly instruct the jury handling the case of Marissa Alexander.

But the appeals court also said the judge was right to block Alexander from using the state's "stand your ground" law as a way to defend her actions.

Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. But the judge at her trial said her conviction on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon carried a mandatory 20-year sentence under state law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26..._ref=crime