re: #246 Dark_Falcon

That story is from September of last year.

To be helpful and to ‘stop digging’, I did a Google search and found that Marissa Alexander did in fact have a hear this past week. Here is a newspaper article on the hearing:

Defense argues Marissa Alexander’s estranged husband has history of abusing partners, who say he did just that

The father of Marissa Alexander’s child has had children with at least three other women, and Thursday each of those women testified that Rico Gray has abused them.

In taking the stand as part of a pretrial hearing all three women, an ex-wife and two former girlfriends, changed their stories, having previously said under oath Rico Gray never abused them.

Alexander, 34, faces a potential 60-year prison term for firing a shot in the direction of Gray and two of his children from previous relationships. She is charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a weapon, and is asserting she fired the shot in self defense because Gray had just beaten her and was about to beat her again.

Alexander had given birth to Gray’s child nine days before the incident happened in August 2010.

Circuit Judge James Daniel will have to decide whether the other mothers of Gray’s children will be allowed to testify on her behalf when Alexander’s trial begins on Dec. 1. Attorneys for Alexander argue that it shows a pattern of abuse that strengthens their clients self-defense claim.