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Tag: Stand your ground
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MARISSA ALEXANDER REMAINS FREE ON BOND
Courtesy of THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION Posted: January 10, 2014 – 10:28am | Updated: January 11, 2014 – 1:00am By Larry Hannan (904) 359-4770 larry.hannan@jacksonville.com Marissa Alexander can remain free on bond, but judge clearly upset with home-detention supervisor A Jacksonville judge has ruled […]
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MARISSA ALEXANDER’S THANKSGIVING BLESSING
Courtesy of FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26, 2013 PRESS CONTACT: Michelle Rodanes (772) 634-2418 JUDGE GRANTS PRE-TRIAL RELEASE THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING This time of year we reflect and give thanks for our family and loved ones. We gather around the table with all the trimmings and reminisce about […]
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JUST DROP THE CASE & FREE MARISSA ALEXANDER
ATTEND MARISSA’S COURT HEARING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! THE WORLD IS WATCHING! THURSDAY, OCT 31st, 8:30 AM DUVAL COUNTY COURTHOUSE 501 W ADAMS ST., 6TH FLOOR JACKSONVILLE, FL *WEAR BLACK* Who is Marissa Alexander? Marissa Alexander is an African American mother and survivor […]
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DROP THE MARISSA ALEXANDER CASE
Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence from Jacksonville, FL who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for defending herself from violence. National action: Urge the State to Drop […]
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DREAM DEFENDERS – P. S. IT AIN’T OVER
Friends, After 31 days and 30 nights in the Florida State Capitol, the Dream Defenders ended our peaceful sit-in of Governor Rick Scott’s office. Although we have left the Capitol, we are not leaving the fight. We came to the Capitol more than a month ago to demand that Florida’s political leadership deal with […]
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INTRODUCING – THE DREAM DEFENDERS
Dream Defenders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnnQVZyY1w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoeUrLNvPnU&feature=youtu.be The Dream Defenders, a group of active, passionate college students who refuse to accept “No” for an answer, have been occupying the Governor’s office at Florida’s State Capital since Tuesday, July 16, 2013,after George Zimmerman was found […]
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PARDON FOR MARISSA ALEXANDER?
SENATOR WANTS ALEXANDER PARDONED Posted: August 5, 2013 – 6:06pm Courtesy of Florida Times Union State Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, wrote to members of the Florida Cabinet on Monday, asking them to support his call for a pardon for Marissa Alexander.
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Justice is served! …or is it?
“You have no further business with the court.” is what Judge Debra Nelson told George Zimmerman on this recent Saturday night of July 13, 2013. George Zimmerman was found not guilty of fatally shooting Trayvon Benjamin Martin in one of the most televised and incensing murder cases dealing with race-and-justice since the trial of O.J. […]