CCW Safe Podcast- Episode 46: The Warning Shot feat. Marissa Alexander - a podcast by Mike Darter

This week Stan and Mike talk with Marissa Alexander, and discuss her self defense case that originated in Jacksonville, FL.   

On August 1st, 2010, Marissa fired a warning shot after her husband attacked her and treated to kill her. She was just days out of the hospital from having her daughter, who was born premature.  In May 2012, Marissa Alexander was prosecuted for aggravated assault with a lethal weapon and received a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. At the time, warning shots were not included in the Stand Your Ground laws in Florida. 

Alexander was released on January 27, 2015, under a plea deal that capped her sentence to the three years she had already served.  

Warning shots were later added to the Stand Your Ground Laws in the state, and that change, signed into law in June of 2014 by Gov. Rick Scott, was partly inspired by the case of Marissa Alexander. 

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