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Fortunately two top notch ba barristers with us. mark, would you go for a stand your ground defense? well, you really have to note facts. i know you had that package at the beginning of this and you have somebody who says oh, he did it to me before. having been in cases where there s publicity and people come out of the woodwork saying, oh, this happened to me and everything else, first thing you re going do is try and determine is that a true and accurate rendition of what really happened. then before you do stand your ground or anything else, you have to just do a parallel investigation and determine what actually happened. i mean, we don t know. we know what s been reported so far. notoriously this is stuff that is leaked by law enforcement to kind of buttress their case. until we get an idea of what actually happened and the defense lawyer mounts a defense, i think it s somewhat premature to start saying he was doing it over texting or anything else. i mean, just at first blush i ....
Alexander is the one who, back in 2012, fired a shot in the air and when she was brought to court for firing that shot in the air during a domestic dispute, she claimed stand your ground, and she was convicted, got 20 years. that conviction was overturned on appeal, and in light of the george zimmerman case, where he used stand your ground and was found not guilty, there s a lot new attention on this, because this will, again, be a stand your ground defense and will likely get a lot of attention because this is a very different, although interesting, application of the same law. nbc s kerry sanders reporting in florida for us, thank you. on a different report, amanda knox told an italian newspaper she d rather be a fugitive than serve a prison sentence for the murder of her former college roommate. ....
So it s amazing the pace. also had united kingdom and other countries. this is accelerating and on the march. my best moment came out of an awful moment, and that is when george zimmerman was acquitted in the trayvon martin case. it brought attention to the case of marissa alexander who was in jacksonville, florida, and she was serving a 20-year prison sentence for shooting a warning shot at an abusive husband. she was claiming that she was standing her ground, and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison by that same d.a. that was at the head of the trayvon martin case. and she s getting a new trial. yes, marissa alexander, really an outrageous case. a woman who was clearly a survivor of domestic violence in an argument with her abuser. right. fires a warning shot up into the air. no one was hurt that didn t hurt anyone. she tried to use stand your ground defense, she was convicted within a matter of hours. yeah. she was sentenced to 20 years, the mandatory minimum. t ....
A woman who was clearly a survivor of domestic violence in an argument with her abuser. right. fires a warning shot up into the air. no one was hurt that didn t hurt anyone. she tried to use stand your ground defense, she was convicted within a matter of hours. yeah. she was sentenced to 20 years, the mandatory minimum. the judge has now overturned that conviction. she ll get a new trial because the jury was not instructed properly on her self-defense. i was really happy to hear that. it s really amazing and there s a lot of fund-raising and activism around marissa alexander s case. go to atprison twitter feed and you can find information about marissa alexander s case. it s opportunity for an injustice to be righted. a new trial we ll watch carefully. richard kim. i know this is totally cliche on my part, but the primary victory of bill de blasio. just from a sheer political narrative level, this was a guy in single digits for most of the campaign. chris quinn had ....
In these drab surroundings. i think this is actually a cool juxtaposition, and it s really all over the place. nine states legalized gay marriage this year, which is as many as had legal gay marriage when we started the year. so it s amazing the pace. also had united kingdom and other countries. this is accelerating and on the march. my best moment came out of an awful moment, and that is when george zimmerman was acquitted in the trayvon martin case. it brought attention to the case of marissa alexander who was in jacksonville, florida, and she was serving a 20-year prison sentence for shooting a warning shot at an abusive husband. she was claiming that she was standing her ground, and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison by that same d.a. that was at the head of the trayvon martin case. and she s getting a new trial. yes, marissa alexander, really an outrageous case. a woman who was clearly a survivor of domestic violence in an argument with her abuser. right. fires a warn ....