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Tracey Grissom claims she was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her ex-husband.
Tracey Grissom, who was convicted of murdering her ex-husband Hunter Grissom back in May of 2012, was sentenced to 25 years in jail.
Former juror Janice Kelley said Grissom didn't get a fair trial because jurors weren't allowed to hear about the rape rape and sodomy Grissom experienced at the hands of ex-husband.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ged-jail-killing-ex-husband-article-1.1929759[...]
convicted Alabama murderer wept openly on Tuesday as she was hauled away to serve a 25-year jail sentence for killing her ex-husband.
“It’s not fair, it’s not fair!” Tracey Grissom wailed after a Tuscaloosa judge rejected her probation plea and ordered her taken away
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even though one of the jurors in the case changed her mind about delivering a guilty verdict.
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a jury convicted Grissom of shooting and killing her ex-husband Hunter Grissom at a Binion Creek boat landing in broad daylight back in May 2012, WRBL reports. Prosecutors argued that she did it to collect a $103,000 life insurance policy. But Tracey has maintained that Hunter approached her menacingly on that fateful day and that she shot her ex in self-defense after a relationship filled with domestic abuse.
“I didn’t do anything wrong,” the mom cried as news cameras followed her through a courthouse
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“All I did was protect myself.”
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County Circuit Court Judge John England wouldn’t allow jurors to hear details about the rape and sodomy that Tracey alleged suffered at Hunter’s hands. The ex-husband was charged for the assault in 2010.
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strict rules were lifted during the sentencing hearing, and Tracey took the stand to tell her side of the story
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She said that Hunter had knocked her to the ground during the 2010 assault and choked her with a drumstrick before sexually abusing her until she was unconscious.
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attack allegedly caused rectal nerve damage and required surgery. At one point, Tracey pulled up her shirt to reveal a colostomy bag.
“He told me that he would make it to where nobody would ever want me,” Tracey said.
The domestic violence counselor that Tracey turned to after the alleged attack testified that the injuries the woman sustained were some of the worst she’d seen in a 20-year career.
“I was horrified,”
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“She had been subjected to a very vicious and very brutal assault. She was constantly on guard, experienced panic attacks and was jumpy. She had horrible night terrors. I felt she about to be put in a lethal situation and was terrified for her life.”
In a surprising turn of events, one of the jurors who studied the case told
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that Grissom didn’t get a fair trial.
Former juror Janice Kelley said she would have delivered a different verdict if she had known details about the alleged rape.
“I feel I made a mistake. If I had to do it over again, we'd have had a hung jury,”
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“We didn't get her side. She did not get a fair trial.”
Grissom’s lawyer, Warren Freeman, is promising to appeal the decision, telling
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that a photo was unfairly leaked to the jury. Freeman wouldn’t elaborate about the photo.
Hunter’s family lashed back, claiming that Tracey deserved a harsher sentence.
“I can only pray that you see how psychotic this woman really is,” Hunter’s sister Chloe stated in a letter to the judge. “She is the most selfish human being on this planet.”