20 years in jail for firing into the wall

[Yuri Zhivago]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/marissa-alexander-gets-20_n_1530035.html
Marissa Alexander Gets 20 Years For Firing Warning Shot


no jail for a murder. hmm....
besides both cases being in Florida, what else is common there?

 

[freyasman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/marissa-alexander-gets-20_n_1530035.html
Marissa Alexander Gets 20 Years For Firing Warning Shot


no jail for a murder. hmm....
besides both cases being in Florida, what else is common there?

They both felt they were completely innocent of wrongdoing and went with a trial. A real criminal would have plead out, and would be out in 20-30 months, instead of 20 years.

 

[Abatis]

Florida is a state that respects citizens rights of self defense and protects those who use it legitimately, justifiably, legally . . .

Florida severely punishes those who use a gun (even if permitted to carry) in an illegal manner.

That woman left the area of threat and returned and shot the gun in a irresponsible manner.

Florida law says if you brandish or threaten with a gun it is punishable with 10 years in prison.

Shoot the gun it is 20 years.

Kill a person, 30 years.

Stop being "manipsmated" . . .

 

[Bernard_Fokke]

Nice try tovarich, she screwed up.

She should have run and didn't when she grabbed the pistol she became the aggressor, more better to run if you can and call the cops and let them take care of it.

 

[Yuri Zhivago]

Nice try tovarich, she screwed up.

She should have run and didn't when she grabbed the pistol she became the aggressor, more better to run if you can and call the cops and let them take care of it.

so why Zimmerman did not run or stayed behind waiting for cops and decided to play "Dirty Harry'?

 

[Bernard_Fokke]

so why Zimmerman did not run or stayed behind waiting for cops and decided to play "Dirty Harry'?

Don't know, I wasn't there and don't really care tovarich and it seems the jury/judge felt differently.

With the intense scrutiny this case was under you can bet the verdict is squeaky clean and will pass inspection. In spite of all the angst and lamenting from some quadrants.

Dirty Harry? Geez Amigo you're starting to sound like Nina.

 

[Yuri Zhivago]

Don't know, I wasn't there and don't really care tovarich and it seems the jury/judge felt differently.

With the intense scrutiny this case was under you can bet the verdict is squeaky clean and will pass inspection. In spite of all the angst and lamenting from some quadrants.

Dirty Harry? Geez Amigo you're starting to sound like Nina.

and that is what i am talking about , the L-A-W.



So basically by Florida law, in any violent confrontation ending in a act of lethal self-defense, without eye-witnesses, the advantage goes to the living.

An intelligent, self-interested observer of this case, who happens to live in Florida, would not be wrong to do as Z did--buy a gun, master Florida self-defense law and then wait.
fehrstehen, Herr Sturmbanfuhrer ?

 

[Bernard_Fokke]

The evidence indicated otherwise as the judge and jury decided.

The Nazi reference is wasted, I'm Dutch and my people fought them.