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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
20 Years for Standing Her Ground
"I got five
baby mammas, and I put my hands on every last one of them except
for one," Rico Gray confessed during a November 2010
deposition. "The way I was with women…they had to walk on
eggshells around me." He recalled punching women in the face,
shoving them, choking them, and tossing them out the door. Yet somehow, after one of those women fired a warning shot into
the ceiling of her Jacksonville, Florida, home to scare him away
during yet another violent outburst, prosecutors managed to
convince a jury that Gray was the victim. As a result, Marissa
Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three,
faces 20 years in prison for standing her ground against an
abusive husband. Gray has been
arrested twice for domestic battery, including an
assault that sent Alexander to the hospital. In September 2009
Alexander obtained a
protective order against Gray that was still in effect on
August 1, 2010, when he flew into a jealous rage after discovering,
while poking through her cellphone, that she had sent pictures of
their newborn daughter to her first husband. Alexander was in the master bathroom at the time, and Gray tried
to force his way in. When she came out, he screamed and cursed at
her while preventing her from leaving the bedroom. "I was like
forcing her back with my body," reported Gray, who is seven inches
taller than Alexander and outweighs her by 100 pounds. When Alexander managed to get by, she ran through the kitchen to
the garage, where she says
she realized she did not have the keys to her car, could not call
for help because she had left her cellphone behind, and could not
escape because the garage door was not working. Instead she grabbed
her handgun from her car and headed back through the kitchen, where
Gray confronted her again...more
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Having been on many juries I find it hard to believe that a jury of 12 could be that mean and/or stupid. There has GOT to be more to this story than the MSM is telling in this article.
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