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Originally Posted by tony286
not if your black
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/justic...und-sentencing
Alexander said she was attempting to flee her husband, Rico Gray, on August 1, 2010, when she picked up a handgun and fired a shot into a wall.
She said her husband had read cell phone text messages that she had written to her ex-husband, got angry and tried to strangle her.
She said she escaped and ran to the garage, intending to drive away. But, she said, she forgot her keys, so she picked up her gun and went back into the house. She said her husband threatened to kill her, so she fired one shot.
She got 20yrs. |
I don't understand what color has to do with anything in this case.
She left, got a firearm, and then returned. That's not standing your ground, that's leaving, arming yourself, then returning and confronting someone with a handgun. If all she did was fire a shot into the wall twenty years is freaking overkill.
Zimmerman couldn't use the stand your ground laws because this was a seventeen minute incident in which Zimmerman followed the victim.