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The trayvon martin murder case has exposed the problematic stand your ground laws in florida and several other states. this week, the state of florida began to take a hard look at it. as the panel directed by governor rick scott begins monday. many people will be there to say stand your ground shouldn't protect george zimmerman. many will be there to ask why stand your ground didn't protect marissa alexander. you should know she's the defendant in another controversial florida case. alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three who alleges she was confronted and attacked by her abusive husband in 2...

A jury looks at this mother of three who gave birth nine days before, shot the kitchen ceiling, and they find her guilty in 12 minutes. but the prosecutor is angela quarry, the same woman who is prosecuting george zimmerman. >> she will be addressing more fully the differences. the jury convicts -- we don't know what is presented fully at the trial. the jury convicts after 12 minutes and then this week, a motion for vacating the conviction, and for retrial, and it was denied by the judge. what's also going on here is that in florida, have you a mandatoman mandatory minimum sentence, just for h...

Her motion for a retrial was denied on thursday and marissa faces 20 years in prison if convicted on three counts of aggravated assault. let me clear again, marissa did not shoot her husband. she shot the kitchen ceiling. and is facing 20 years. if a survivor of domestic violence uses a gun to warn an attacker, not kill him and that survivor now faces a prison term of 20 years, then what purpose does stand your ground serve? joining to us discuss that is elizabeth schneider, professor of law at brooklyn law school. an expert in the field of federal civil litigation, gender and domestic violenc...

This around the world. >> exactly that sense of like who are these women, who are in situations of abuse? somehow it makes it feel as though they are not the perfect victim in the way that a trayvon martin is. i have been obviously part of a whole group of people wanting and calling for justice on the trayvon case there have been basically a social movement around trayvon martin. we've seen the crowds gathering in florida, and yet very little on marissa alexander's case. despite the fact that this woman, again, is facing 20 years in jail for having not shot someone. for having shot a kitchen c...