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Marissa Alexander’s 20-years mandatory prison sentence, where’s the damn community outrage? »
by Charles S. Mombo @CharlesSMombo Marissa Alexander's 20-years mandatory prison sentence, where's the damn community outrage? It has been over four months since a Florida judge sentenced Marissa Alexander to 20-years in prison. What surprises me the most about Alexander's case is the lack of outrage or backlash from the community. Corrine Brown, Florida's congresswoman and the Support for Marissa Alexander are doing a damn good job in exposing this injustice; but they can not do it alone. If you haven't been following Alexander's story, please allow me to recap the events that led to her getting slammed with a senseless and unjust mandatory twenty year sentence. Alexander is serving “mandatory twenty year sentence,” for shooting a warning shot into the air after her abusive husband, Rico Gray, threatened to kill her. Nobody was hurt in that case. Alexander unsuccessfully tried to use Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" as her [...] Source Main page (current trends)
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