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Posted by Andrew Branca on January 11, 2014 13 Comments
Based on reporting from the Florida Times-Union, it appears that Circuit Court Judge James Daniel has determined that it was the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office that is responsible for this past week’s kerfuffle over the  relaxed enforcement of Marissa Alexander’s home detention. In a column updated...

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 10, 2014 10 Comments
Marissa Alexander will remain free on bail, ruled Circuit Judge James Daniel, albeit under tightens rules of release to account for the fact that “mistakes were made”. The State, in the form of Andrea Corey’s State Prosecutors office, had filed a motion this past Monday...

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 09, 2014 13 Comments
Marissa Alexander will learn on Friday if her current bail and home detention will be allowed to continue, or if it will be revoked, sending her back to jail until her re-trial. Alexander is currently on bail following her earlier conviction for aggravated assault with...

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 06, 2014 17 Comments
Well, Marissa Alexander simply can’t bring her self to abide by the orders of a court, according to a story from First Coast News (FCN), Florida. The last time she was out on bail, and under a restraining order to stay away from her estranged...

Posted by Andrew Branca on November 28, 2013 12 Comments
Marissa Alexander has been released on bail, according to widespread news reports.  The conditions of her release are stringent, although not overly so for someone who has never been a very appropriate candidate for pre-(re-)-trial release.  Alexander had been previously convicted of aggravated assault with...

Posted by Andrew Branca on November 13, 2013 15 Comments
Marissa Alexander’s motion for bail was left undecided today, when the Judge responsible for the decision decided to delay further action on the matter until January 15, 2014. Alexander’s attorney had made a request for bail in anticipation of her re-trial on charges of aggravated...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 7 Comments
(Photo: AP) National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander, who also serves as Commander of the United States Cyber Command, is expected to depart by next March or April, according to a Reuters news report. The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are...

Posted by Andrew Branca on September 27, 2013 36 Comments
Much of the coverage of the Marissa Alexander case (previously touched on Legal Insurrection here and here) laments that Ms. Alexander was sentenced to a statutory mandatory sentence of 20 years in prison for having “merely” fired a “warning shot”.   The actual evidence of...

Posted by Andrew Branca on September 26, 2013 43 Comments
In May 2012, Marissa Alexander was convicted of aggravated assault for having fired a gun at her estranged husband and his two children. Under Florida’s “10-20-Life” law she received the mandatory 20-year-sentence for having fired a gun in the commission of a felony. We wrote...
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