Deven Grey.Photo: Alabama Department of Corrections
A new 10-part podcast examines the case of a young Black mom who claimed she shot and killed her allegedly abusive White boyfriend in self-defense, and the justice system that sent her to prison.
“Me and my boyfriend were just fighting, and I just shot him, and I think he’s dead,” Grey said in the 911 callheard in the trailer forBlind Plea.
During the investigation, Grey told investigators that Vance, 31, was extremely violent throughout their relationship and that she had “tried to call the cops on him several times” and “got hit every time,” she’s heard saying.
“I saw the gun and I saw him. And I was just like, ‘I’ve had enough of this,'” Grey said in the trailer.
Blind Plea.Lemonada
Although she was initially charged with murder, Grey subsequently took a blind plea — a guilty plea without an agreed-upon sentence — for manslaughter. She was subsequently sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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According to the press release for the podcast, Grey is a “Black woman who shot and killed a White man in Alabama” who “did the only thing she could: She took the plea. Deven’s sentence became the final link in a chain of deceit, haunted land, generational trauma, false identity, a deadly love triangle, and a broken justice system.”
Jail records indicate Grey was sentenced on Nov. 4, 2020 and was denied parole a year later. Her minimum release date is April 19, 2024.
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source: people.com
