A Georgia woman will soon stand trial for felony murder against the same prosecutors who once sent her abuser to prison for violently assaulting her. In the Ashlyn Griffin Story, she shot and killed her boyfriend, Brandon McCray in June 2020.
She voluntarily gave statements to law enforcement after the shooting, videoed a re-enactment at the scene with detectives, and then provided a written statement of her account. She told them it was self-defense, that he was abusing her as he’d done repeatedly in the past.
Authorities, however, didn’t buy the story. Consequently, Griffin was arrested and charged with Murder and now awaits to be judged by a jury of her peers.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Barclay Black argued that Ashlyn Griffin should not be immune from prosecution. He said her claims of self defense did not reach the threshold of an affirmative defense. Citing a 2009 case, Black said that Ashlyn Griffin had to admit to “the crime” and that she failed to make her defense when she testified that she didn’t mean to kill Brandon McCray.
What do you think: Was it murder? Or self-defense?
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