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>> I BELIEVE WHEN HE THREATENED  TO KILL ME, THAT'S WHAT HE WAS  GOING TO DO. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE INTENDED  TO DO. AND HAD I NOT DISCHARGED MY  WEAPON AT THAT POINT, I WOULD  NOT BE HERE. THIS IS MY LIFE I'M FIGHTING  FOR. THIS IS MY LIFE. AND IT'S LIFE. IT IS NOT ENTERTAINMENT. IT IS MY LIFE. 
>> MARISSA ALEXANDER WAS DENIED  THE SAME STAND YOUR GROUND  DEFENSE THAT MANY OTHERS HAVE  RECEIVED. WHAT SHE WAS SEPARATED FROM HER  KIDS, AND SHE WAS SENT TO  PRISON. SHE FINALLY GOT SOME GOOD NEWS  LAST FALL WHEN AN APPEALS COURT  ORDERED A NEW TRIAL. BUT NOW A STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT  FROM HER PROSECUTOR. STATE ATTORNEY ANGELA COREY SAYS SHE'LL TRY TO PUT MARISSA  ALEXANDER IN PRISON FOR 60  YEARS. 60 YEARS. THAT'S TRIPLE ALEXANDER'S  ORIGINAL SENTENCE. IT'S ESSENTIALLY A LIFE SENTENCE IF SHE IS CONVICTED AT THIS  UPCOMING TRIAL. SO MARISSA ALEXANDER FIRES A  WARNING SHOT. NO ONE IS HURT, AND SHE FACES 60 YEARS IN PRISON? WHILE OTHERS HAVE SHOT AND  KILLED AND ARE WALKING FREE  TODAY. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE IN THAT? .  
>> JOINING ME NOW IS LISA BLOOM, LEGAL ANALYST FOR THE "TODAY"  SHOW AND AVO.COM, AND THE AUTHOR OF "SUSPICION NATION: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE TRAYVON MARTIN  INJUSTICE AND WHY WE CONTINUE TO REPEAT IT." THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, LISA. 
>> THANK YOU, REVEREND AL. 
>> LISA, HOW CAN ANGELA COREY  TRY TO PUT MARISSA ALEXANDER  BEHIND BARS FOR 60 YEARS WHEN  SHE WAS ORIGINALLY SENTENCED TO  JUST 20? 
>> THIS IS ANOTHER OUTRAGE FROM  ANGELA COREY'S OFFICE. THERE SEEMS TO BE A SERIES OF  BLUNDERS GOING ON THERE. FIRST THE ZIMMERMAN CAME, AND  THEN THE MICHAEL DUNN CASE AND  NOW THIS. SHE SEEMS COMPLETELY TONE DEAF  TO WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING  WHICH IS MARISSA ALEXANDER  PROBABLY SHOULD NOT BE BEHIND  BARS AT ALL IF THE NEXT JURY  FINDS THIS WAS A SELF-DEFENSE  SITUATION. EVEN IF IT WASN'T SELF-DEFENSE,  EVEN IF THE JURY FINDS THAT SHE  FIRED TO SCARE HER HUSBAND OFF,  HER ALLEGEDLY ABUSIVE EX-HUSBAND OFF, 20 YEARS IS SO FAR OUT OF  KEEPING WITH ANY SENSE OF  PROPORTIONALITY WHEN NO ONE ELSE WAS HURT. AND NOW SHE WANTS TO TRIPLE THAT TO 60 YEARS? I MEAN, THIS IS REALLY SHOCKING. 
>> NO, IT'S SHOCKING AND I  HAPPEN TO BE IN FLORIDA TODAY. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FACT  THAT WE'RE JUST DEALING WITH NO  CONVICTION IN THE MURDER COUNTS  ON JORDAN DAVIS' KILLING WHERE  HE DIED. A 17-YEAR-OLD KID, TRAYVON  MARTIN, 17-YEAR-OLD KID DIED, NO CONVICTION. AND THIS YOUNG LADY CONVICTED,  SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS. THE COURT OF APPEALS SAID THE  JUDGE DIDN'T CHARGE THE JURY  RIGHT. NOW SHE IS GOING TO BE RETRIED  FACING 60 YEARS. THE CONTRAST COULDN'T BE MORE  STRIKING AND SHOCKING. 
>> WELL, THAT'S RIGHT. AND AS YOU POINT OUT, THE MOST  IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THIS CASE IS THAT NOBODY, THANK GOODNESS, WAS HARMED. NEITHER HER HUSBAND, NEITHER HER HUSBAND'S CHILDREN, OR ANYBODY  ELSE. IT WAS SIMPLY THE WALL THAT WAS  HARMED. THE WALL THAT THE BULLET WENT  INTO. NOW, I'M NOT A FAN OF PEOPLE  FIRING OFF GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF ALTERCATIONS. BUT THIS WAS SELF-DEFENSE, THAT  IS A COMPLETE DEFENSE. AND SHE MAKES A PRETTY GOOD  STORY FOR SELF-DEFENSE. BUT IF THE JURY SAYS OTHERWISE,  SO BE IT. 20 YEARS BEHIND BARS THAT SHE  POINTS OUT, EFFECTIVELY A LIFE  SENTENCE IF IT GOES UP TO 60  YEARS, WHEN NO ONE WAS HARMED,  AND THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT  HER HUSBAND HAS A HISTORY OF  ABUSE AGAINST HER. 
>> CONGRESSWOMAN CORRINE BROWN  ACTUALLY CONFRONTED ANGELA  COREY, THE PROSECUTOR, WHO ALSO  HAPPENED TO BE THE PROSECUTOR IN THE CASE AROUND JORDAN DAVIS AND TRAYVON MARTIN. YET SHE IS THE PROSECUTOR OF  MARISSA ALEXANDER. WATCH THIS AND GIVE ME YOUR  REACTION, LISA.  
>> IN THIS CASE, I UNDERSTAND  WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED.  
>> YES, MA'AM.  
>> BUT IT DID NOT HAPPEN. IT DID NOT HAPPEN. AND SO ALL WE WAS ASKING AND ALL THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR IS  MERCY AND JUSTICE. 
>> CONGRESSWOMAN, I SHOWED HER  MERCY WHEN I SAT DOWN WITH HER,  WE OFFERED HER --  
>> 20 YEARS IS NOT EVEN JUSTICE. 
>> SO THAT WAS IN 2012, RIGHT  AFTER THE CASE WITH MARISSA  ALEXANDER AND ANGELA CORY  STANDING THERE BEING COLD FRONFRONTED  BY THE CONGRESSWOMAN.  
>> VERY FEW CASES GET TO JUDGES. ABOUT 95% OF CASES END IN PLEA  BARGAINS. SO SINCE PROSECUTORS DECIDE WHO  TO CHARGE, WHAT TO CHARGE THEM  WITH, AND WHETHER TO OFFER A  PLEA BARGAIN OR NOT. AND WE CAN SEE HERE, THIS  EXTRAORDINARY ABUSE OF POWER  WHERE ANGELA COREY IS NOW  THREATENING 60 YEARS BEHIND BARS TO A WOMAN WHO FIRED A GUN IN A  WARNING SHOT AND NO ONE WAS  HARMED. I THINK THAT IS AN ABUSE OF  POWER. AND I THINK ANGELA COREY NEEDS  TO REMEMBER THAT SHE IS  ANSWERABLE TO THE PUBLIC. SHE IS A PUBLIC OFFICIAL. HER SALARY IS PAID WITH TAX  DOLLARS, AND SHE IS CLEARLY NOT  ACTING IN A WAY THAT IS IN  KEEPING WITH WHAT THE COMMUNITY  WANTS HER TO DO. 
>> YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST THE  STAND YOUR GROUND LAW, AND  CERTAINLY WE HAVE A LOT OF  CONCERNS ABOUT THAT. BUT THE SENTENCING STRUCTURE  THAT IS UNFAIR. THE FLORIDA TIMES UNION REPORTS  THAT, QUOTE, THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE UP THE ISSUE OF WHETHER FLORIDA LAW  REQUIRES MULTIPLE 10 TO 20 LIFE  SENTENCES TO BE CONSECUTIVE,  WHILE THE FIRST DISTRICT HAS  RULED THAT JUDGES MUST MAKE  SENTENCES CONSECUTIVE, OTHER  APPELLATE COURTS IN FLORIDA HAVE SAID JUDGES CAN IMPOSE SENTENCES CONCURRENTLY. THAT THERE IS NOT EVEN AN  AGREEMENT ON HOW THE SENTENCE  SHOULD BE IMPOSED, LISA.  
>> WELL, THAT'S RIGHT. AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT,  BECAUSE IF SHE IS CONVICTED OF  THREE COUNTS AND THEY'RE SERVED  CONCURRENTLY, THEN THREE  20-COUNT SENTENCES IS STILL JUST 20 YEARS. BUT IF THEY'RE CONSECUTIVELY,  THEN IT'S 60 YEARS. YOU KNOW, THE BOTTOM LINE,  REVEREND AL, LET'S CALL THIS  WHAT IT IS. IT'S VINDICTIVENESS ON THE PART  OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE  BECAUSE MARISSA ALEXANDER HAD  THE GALL TO SUPPORT HER RIGHTS  AND GO UP ON AN APPEAL AND GET  AN APPELLATE COURT TO REVERSE  IT. NOW IT'S BACK DOWN. AND NOW SHE IS LOOKING AT TRIPLE THE SENTENCE THAT IS NOT  APPROPRIATE FOR THE PROSECUTORS  TO DO, TO BEHAVE THAT WAY  TOWARDS SOMEONE WHO HAS SIMPLY  BEEN EXERCISING HER LEGAL RIGHTS AND FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM. 
>> AND WHERE ARE ALL THE STAND  YOUR GROUND SUPPORTERS IN THE  STATE OF FLORIDA WHEN IT COMES  TO MARISSA ALEXANDER? I SEE ALL OF US RALLYING AGAINST STAND YOUR GROUND. I DON'T SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO STAND YOUR GROUND FOR  HER. 
>> THAT'S RIGHT. 
>> BUT WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW  THIS CASE CLOSELY. LISA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME  TONIGHT. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT  BOOK.  
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
>>> STILL AHEAD, IN THE FACE OF  AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS, SOME  REPUBLICANS ARE ATTACKING THE  PRESIDENT'S UKRAINE STRATEGY AS  FECKLESS AND WEAK. 
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