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arcane_chaos on 15 July 2013

yeah, I've been hearing alot of this case as it's been brought up again into the media as the GZ trial was going on.



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tres on 15 July 2013
Slimebeast said:
Can someone fill in the details here because 20 years for gun shots without even hurting a person doesn't sound like a sentence given on this planet.


apparently firing a gun standing your ground against a person that even said they were going to kill her  weighs heavier than actually shooting and killing someone.  so next time if you feel someone is a threat in florida at least shoot them in their big toe.  then again attempted murder might be  a bigger sentence than murder.  i wonder if florida gang bangers can do drive bys and just run around killing their rivals using stand your ground.  because unlike gz case the people they would be killing would actually kill them.



arcane_chaos on 15 July 2013
Darc Requiem said:
The moral of the story is this. Stay out of Florida. Seriously. There is another case that's batshit insane. A guy shot into a car full of teenagers because they didn't turn down their music. Hey killed one of them.


I heard about this as well, any update?



timmah on 15 July 2013
tres said:
Slimebeast said:
Can someone fill in the details here because 20 years for gun shots without even hurting a person doesn't sound like a sentence given on this planet.


apparently firing a gun standing your ground against a person that even said they were going to kill her  weighs heavier than actually shooting and killing someone.  so next time if you feel someone is a threat in florida at least shoot them in their big toe.  then again attempted murder might be  a bigger sentence than murder.  i wonder if florida gang bangers can do drive bys and just run around killing their rivals using stand your ground.  because unlike gz case the people they would be killing would actually kill them.

For God's sake, read the story! She got past her husband into the garage, got into her car, retrieved a gun, came back in the house, was pointing the gun at him, then discharged the weapon. This was from her testimony and his! There wasn't evidence to support any need for self defense at the time she fired, that's the problem. Is this stuff really this hard to grasp, or do people just make the first emotional, knee-jerk reaction that comes to mind and stick to it? My first reaction to the Zimmerman trial was that he was guilty (based on seeing it on CNN), until I researched and looked at the evidence about a week later. My first reaction to this story was that she should have gotten off, but then I went and read the actual facts in the case. If you bypass media sensationalism and actually read the facts, maybe you can make an informed decision from which to form an opinion.



timmah on 15 July 2013

Regardless of your initial impression, always get both sides of the story: http://www.loop21.com/life/marissa-alexander-husband-rico-gray-speaks . Sounds like they're both quite a mess. He has a history of domestic abuse, and she also pled no contest to assaulting him. Both are black, a member of the jury was black, and deliberations were only 12 minutes (so obviously no objections from the black jury member) so I'm not quite sure where the racial bias argument even comes in here.

I really believe that if this were two white folks from the trailer park it wouldn't have even made the news.