A Florida woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot at her allegedly abusive husband. Claiming self-defense just as George Zimmerman did in the Trayvon Martin shooting trial, a jury convicted Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on May 11,2012. Alexander, 31, said she feared for her life when she fired a bullet into the wall of her home in August 2010.The Jacksonville mother of three had a protective order against her husband. When Alexander's attorney made an appeal to reconsider her case under the Stand Your Ground law, the judge denied to grant her a new trial.Alexander had never been in trouble with the law before,but Circuit Court Judge James Daniel said he would not allow for any circumstances to reduce the sentence.
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