(2005-06-09) Justice for Mothers and Children (JMC) helping Leisa Pyatt apply for Clemency
Leisa Pyatt requesting clemency from NJ Governor
Sandra Ramos, founder of the first battered women's shelter in North America and presently executive director of Strengthen Our Sisters Shelter for homeless/battered women and children, led a press conference and peaceful vigil at the state house annex in Trenton on May 5th. The event was organized to bring attention to the plight of a young woman who has spent 12 years in prison for defending herself and her baby in a domestic violence attack in 1993.
A representative from the governor's office met with the group after the press conference and supplied the clemency application papers, which were given to Leisa and her family to prepare for submission to the governor this week.
Leisa Pyatt, who faces another 18 years in prison before a parole review has claimed from the beginning that her fiancé Kevin was accidentally injured when he was assaulting her in a drunken rage. When he vowed to kill her and her baby if she did not give him the keys to the car, she grabbed a fishing knife from the drawer he
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