State Attorney Moves To Revoke Marissa Alexander’s Bond
Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey has filed a motion to revoke the bond of Marissa Alexander,claiming she violated conditions of her parole by running errands, reports First Coast News.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Alexander, a 33-year old Jacksonville mother of three, has spent the last 2 years behind bars serving time for a domestic violence dispute during which she fired a warning shot at her estranged husband, Rico Gray, Sr. who admitted that he had threatened to kill her.
“If my kids weren’t there, I knew I probably would have tried to take the gun from her,” Gray said. “If my kids wouldn’t have been there, I probably would have put my hand on her.” When Alexander’s defense attorney asked him what he meant by “put my hand on her,” Gray replied, “probably hit her. I got five baby mammas and I put my hands on every last one of them except for one.”
After rejecting a 3-year plea deal offered by Corey, Alexander was sentenced to 20 years to life in jail.
A new bond hearing was initially scheduled for Nov. 13 — because a judge ruled that there were errors in the jury instructions — but was pushed back to January 15, 2014.
Alexander was granted a pretrial release on Nov. 27 after agreeing to the following special conditions:
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