COURT FINALLY OVERTURNS MARISSA ALEXANDER’S 20 YEAR SENTENCE.

[Lurks Often]

377. I'll say it again

under the laws of virtually every state in the country, once she left the room, went to her car in the garage and got the gun and then re-entered the room, she lost the right to claim self defense.

If she was in such fear of her safety, why did she go back in the house? At the time of the shooting he was living there, not her. He was the one that called 911 and left the house with the children. Marissa apparently refused to come out of the house when the police arrived.

Is the husband scum, of course he is, but that doesn't change what Marissa did that night.

Legally and from a jury's viewpoint she made just about every mistake possible that night and worse, the abusive ex-husband managed to do just about everything right that night in the eyes of the jury and the law.

We can go back and forth until we are blue in the face, but it won't change the letter of the law and under that law, the jury found her guilty.