COURT FINALLY OVERTURNS MARISSA ALEXANDER’S 20 YEAR SENTENCE.

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140. Gray recanted that statement

See long, detailed coverage of the actual facts of the case here.



No one is saying that Rico Gray is a great guy (or at least I'm not, anyway). The guy's a woman-abusing shithead of the highest order and he has a track record with the police to prove it. It's just that the actual facts in this case do not involve him threatening Marissa Alexander in any way that comes anywhere remotely close to the standard of belief that one's safety is in imminent peril. None of what Alexander says adds up to anything credible. She was in imminent peril because he became enraged that she had a gun, and only then did he threaten her life? Seriously? She "fired into the air" and the bullet just happened to miss Gray's head by a few inches? She couldn't open the garage door even though she had opened that same garage door to put her own car in the garage just moments earlier? And the police had no problem operating the garage door during her seven-hour standoff with police, but she couldn't open it?

The "bathroom door" incident was proven in court to have happened months earlier, not the day of the shooting. If she were really trying to flee, as she claimed she was, then why not simply run out the front door that she walked past in order to go to her car and get her gun?

Rico Gray is a very long way from sainthood, but Marissa Alexander is a disturbed, violent, dangerous woman who unquestionably committed attempted murder. She has less than zero credibility and has been caught in numerous lies, as well as frequently disregarding legal orders (such as the "non-violence" order that the courts had imposed before the shooting, as well as the zero-contact order that the court imposed as a part of her bail). The woman was staggeringly stupid to refuse to take the deal that was offered her, particularly given that her attorneys were begging her to take the deal. She would already have finished serving her time and could have potentially had this whole event expunged had she simply taken the deal that was very generously offered. Instead, she was pig-headed and refused to listen to anyone who told her, in utterly no uncertain terms, that she had absolutely no leg to stand on in her claim of self-defense.




Pity meter pegged at negative infinity. She belongs behind bars, and she'll be put back there after this new trial if she's too dumb to take a plea deal (if they even offer one this time).