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Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

i just wanted to let those who have been following marissa's case and working hard to bring her story to the media that there's been a plea deal.

she won't be home for the holidays but will be released early next year.

/></p> <p>background:</p> <p><span style= Alexander, a mother of three, was arrested in August 2010 for firing one shot inside her Jacksonville, Fla., home after then-husband Rico Gray allegedly attacked her. Nobody was injured, but after refusing a plea offer of three years in prison Alexander was convicted of aggravated assault and given a 20-year mandatory sentence.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/11/24/marissa-alexander-agrees-to-plea-deal-will-spend-holi...

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?" Hillel
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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

Thank you. I wasn't familiar with this story.
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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

She should have never spent a day in jail.

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

Now that is one person that never should have spent one day in jail!

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

On 11/24/2014 Shorty2U said:

Now that is one person that never should have spent one day in jail!

Ditto both you and kalypso.

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

Gosh, I thought she would long be home with her babies by now. Thanks for the update Eve.

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

What an injustice this was. Poor woman, I'm glad she will finally be released.

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

I don't understand why she has to wait THAT LONG!! Why can't they let her out before the holidays?? She has served TOOOOO long as it is!

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Re: Marissa Alexander will be released in January. Stand your ground Florida case update

Georgie goes free and she goes to jail. What's wrong with that picture?