Posted on 02/16/2017 12:43:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
Deyanira Cuiriz was celebrating her birthday in August 2012 when two men beat her father. As they drove away, she fired a gun into their truck, striking one of the men in the spine and paralyzing him.
A state appeals court has ruled that the mandatory life sentence handed down to a Bay Area woman who shot and gravely wounded a man who had just beaten her father is unconstitutional.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Deyanira Cuiriz had been sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for attempted voluntary manslaughter, mayhem and shooting at an occupied vehicle
So?
Your Honor I believed that they were going to use the truck to run us over. This was my reasonable belief.
Prove they were not.
they brought charges up and the jury did the right thing and voted not guilty...
Once again, DO NOT TALK TO COPS. EVER. Let your ATTORNEY do the talking. If you are offered a plea, take it! ;)
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