COURT FINALLY OVERTURNS MARISSA ALEXANDER’S 20 YEAR SENTENCE.

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168. I as a woman would not be want to be walking down the street

trying to get away from this guy who had a vehicle parked outside the house. So I would not have gone out the front door either because I would want to get in my car to get away from him. Also I see that the garage door did not work after he used it. Could it be that there is a lock on that system that he engaged to keep her in the house and then released before the police showed up? Keeping her in the house under his control is consistent with the behavior of an abuser.

Regardless, abuse is about keeping the victim so fearful that you can control them and she was undoubtedly terrified. I think she was justified from what I see. Also just the contrast with the white men who have used SYG successfully to walk free after murder with 20 years with an abused woman who was obviously defending herself from a perceived threat with no harm done is stunning.

Finally I think SYG was deliberately left vague so that judges could interpret the law one way for the Zimmermans and another way for the Alexanders of this world.