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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131115:21:43:00

his locked home when a young woman knocked at his door, at his outer door, after being involved in a road traffic accident. nor does it change the fact there was no sign of forced entry. and it does not change the fact that a 5 4 teenager was shot in the face while apparently seeking help. for more, i m joined now by columnist and msnbc contributor, goldie taylor, whose new column breaking black can be found at the grio.com, and democratic strategist julien epstein. goldie, the prosecutor made sure to emphasize that in order to claim self defense, the shooter would need to have had an honest and reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm. given that he has now been charged with second degree murder and manslaughter, does this suggest to you that the prosecutor does not believe that he was justified in firing at this young woman s face? well, you know, this prosecutor, kym worthy, has a very long and storied track

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there are many people, the grio has written about this, were it not for trayvon martin case that she would have wasted away in prison and not been given this opportunity to fight back and perhaps ultimately clear her name and become a free woman. i think that s absolutely true. the stand your ground law did not work for her, even though the facts as we know them seemed that stand your ground should have worked. in her own words, she thinks she had the right to stand her ground because she was in her own home and had no duty to retreat. so in the wake of the zimmerman verdict, he s walking around free and marissa is not free. trayvon martin s case allowed her case to get even more of the media spotlight xbr and national attention and perhaps we would not be here at this point without it. we ll see what happens this evening and of course we ll update our audience and reverend al sharpton has been following

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in jail since the shooting, in which no one was hurt. she was denied using stand your ground as a defense and convicted on three counts of aggravated assault. that was thrown out by appeals court and her new trial will begin next march. joining me now from the grio.com, thanks for the time here. this is not the end of her legal battle but if things go her way this evening, she would be free pending her next trial. today is a big day for marissa alexander and her family, including her three children. she s getting an opportunity to released on bond. she has a couple of challenging facts on her side. she was previously released earlier on the case and ended up having an altercation with her soon to be exhusband. so the judge will decide whether circumstances have changed, sufficiently changed so she would finally be released and let go and go home to be with her family.

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after being shot at the scene of the crime, he remains in critical condition but is not believed to have suffered brain damage, allowing for the possibility he might be able to answer questions at some point. and while the entirety of his motive is yet to be known, he did have on him at the time a letter. which had language associated with the anti-government patriot movement, as well as some additional anti-government literature about a conspiracy to form a single global government. and for more, i m joined by brand-new grio.com columnist, goldie taylor and founder of stop handgun violence, john rose en that will. i want to start with you, goldie. we have this once again confluence of we don t really know what the motives are, but there was this literature of anti-government random fervor and a gun. what can we realistically attack? we can t deal with people s ideology. there is nothing that could have been done to stop him. there are a couple things

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