Oh Brandon... so your telling me that it's not possible that Trayvon was a thug with intent on breaking into someone's house on his way home from the store?!
(CBS News) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville had said the state's "Stand Your Ground" law should apply to her because she was defending herself against her allegedly abusive husband when she fired warning shots inside her home in August 2010. She told police it was to escape a brutal beating by her husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.
CBS Affiliate WETV reports that Circuit Court Judge James Daniel handed down the sentence Friday.
Under Florida's mandatory minimum sentencing requirements Alexander could receive a lesser sentence, even though she has never been in trouble with the law before. Judge Daniel said the law did not allow for extenuating or mitigating circumstances to reduce the sentence below the 20-year minimum.
"I really was crying in there," Marissa's 11-year-old daughter told WETV. "I didn't want to cry in court, but I just really feel hurt. I don't think this should have been happening."
Alexander was convicted of attempted murder after she rejected a plea deal for a three-year prison sentence. She said she did not believe she did anything wrong.
She was recently denied a new trial after appealing to the judge to reconsider her case based on Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law.
The law states that the victim of a crime does not have to attempt to run for safety and can immediately retaliate in self-defense.
Alexander's attorney said she was clearly defending herself and should not have to spend the next two decades behind bars.
Alexander's case has drawn support from domestic abuse advocates - and comparison to the case of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who has claimed a "Stand Your Ground" defense in his fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
And what if Trayvon felt threatened for his life? If he killed Zimmerman, would he have gone free too?
Unless Zimmerman physically touched him before the altercation was invoked... Then Trayvon had no right to bash sis's skull into the ground for feeling scared.
I cannot wait until September 9th when the fall semester begins. I will be stepping into my 99% white university and a Trayvon Martin shirt on my widely recognizable body and I DARE a bitch to say anything negative about it.
If you thought there was any chance he would get charged with murder, you didn't follow the trial or you're just a fool. He should have gotten manslaughter but...
People saying this isn't about race have either never been racially profiled or are not a minority. This was about race and you know it.
The fact that Zimmerman didn't get time after getting out the car after being told by a police officer to stay in is sickening because it cost a teenage unarmed boy his life. That alone was reason enough.
Florida is a f*cked up state and it's going to take something really bad to happen for them to realize they need to reevaulate their laws.
Trayvon wouldn't be smashing his skull into the cement had Zimmerman not followed him
Mess at that being the main argument in this thread. Why oh why couldn't Zimmerman and Trayvon have left that confrontation unharmed? How does everyone here think it went down? Zimmerman pulled the gun out and shot Trayvon from the get go?
Oh Brandon... so your telling me that it's not possible that Trayvon was a thug with intent on breaking into someone's house on his way home from the store?!
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