Repeating the same error doesn't fix it. I have never disagreed that he is abusive, continuing to prove it does no good. What you're being unwilling to consider is that she is also abusive.
You have in no way demonstrated she was a "mutually abusive spouse" which was Derec's initial claim. In no way demonstrated that "she attacked him, he attacked her". His description of the entire incident in the quoted transcripts demonstrates that he is the party who went on the attack and through the following steps :
1) As she was in the bathroom, after he saw she had sent pics of their infant daughter to her ex husband, he flew into a rage, banged on the bathroom door, yelling at her, demanding she comes out to talk to him.
2) As she exited, she attempted to leave but he kept blocking her physically, still demanding that she talks to him while preventing her to leave. She then demanded he leaves.
3) As he kept obstructing her leaving, she went to the garage thinking she could get in her car and leave from that location. He admits in his deposition that he knew she could not leave from there because the garage door had been jammed and was locked.
From the above and summarized from his description in the transcript, demonstrate how "she attacked him, he attacked her".(that was your statement that "she attacked him, he attacked her".
Further, demonstrate how :
1) Marissa going to use the restroom, makes her abusive.
2) Marissa attempting to leave after she exited the bathroom makes her abusive.
3) Marissa demanding he leaves in view of his volatile fit (which echoes his history of physical abuse which she was a victim of when she was pregnant, resulting in her going to the hospital) makes her abusive.
4) Marissa going to the garage to get to her car to exit via the garage (since he was blocking her physically to leave via the entrance door and he refused to leave) makes her abusive.
Who, Loren, created and initiated a climate of insecurity and intimidated the other party based on the above? Who had a history of resorting to physical violence and admitted in the deposition that he was always the one who started it in the course of his relationship with Marissa. He started it based on the above. He went from looking at those pics as they had just had breakfast to flying into his usual getting mad. And his usual getting mad already carried the precedent of his resorting to physical violence and using his fists on the women he had relationships with. To include Marissa.
You stated "she attacked him, he attacked her". Point specifically where any of the described steps above she took constitutes a "she attacked him". Surely her showing pics cannot be interpreted as "attacking him". He flew in a rage. He is the party who initiated it.
You appear to be justifying his volatile fit targeting Marissa when you stated "she attacked him, he attacked her". That would be very concerning.
Detail how her choosing to flee in view of his persistent attempts to PHYSICALLY block her constitute an "attack" on her. Detail how her heading to the garage to find a safe escape/exit route while he had been blocking her PHYSICALLY and kept demanding she does not leave constitutes an "attack" on her part. While he admitted he knew the garage door was locked and she could NOT exit that way.
He didn't follow her into the garage. She's safe.
You are still NOT demonstrating how "she attacked him, he attacked her". I have gone through all the steps described by Rico in his deposition in the court transcripts. Those steps demonstrate that she did not initiate an "attack " on him. The moment he flew into his rage and went after her as she was in the bathroom, there is not doubt he was the party attacking her. How about you reverse your "she attacked him, he attacked her" to "he attacked her, she attacked him".
As to your speculating that she "is safe in the garage", what leads you to believe that Rico was not the type of individual who would pursue to harass physically and verbally a woman who would not comply with his demands? Have you not paid attention to his history? His "5 baby mommas" comment escaped your attention? Oh and by the way the "baby mommas" in question have confirmed he was the type to resort to using his fists on women when he did not get his way.
Further, it appears we are now down to her "sins" being about her having demanded he leaves in view of an undeniable fit of rage motivated by his obsessive jealousy. Because the "she attacked him, so he attacked her" does not hold any water at this point in view of all the above. Unless one considers that Marissa showing him pics of their infant daughter was an "attack " she somehow initiated on him. Then the bathroom episode etc...
She had no right to order him to leave his residence.
Ah... so really what bothers you here is that she demanded he leaves while he was blocking her physically from leaving while he was throwing a fit of rage which he initiated, which led him to harass her while she was in the bathroom, banging on that door, yelling at her and pursuing to physically block her from leaving after she exited the bathroom. It is quite interesting that you seem to have NO issue with his behavior where he is the party who keeps preventing her from leaving the said residence, residence where she had spent the night and certainly not against his will since he had asked her to spend the night there.
She had no justification for the use of lethal force.
According to your repeated dismissal of the reality exposed in the transcripts of his having been the party who attacked her in the course of his fit of rage. Further, your blissfully obliviously formulated conclusion that she was safe in the garage. As if there were no precedent/antecedent of his use of physical violence on women who did not comply with his demands, to include Marissa. Why are you expecting a woman who had been one of his victims of physical violence (to add to the other "baby mommas") to believe that as long as he would prevent her from leaving and she would be stuck in that garage, she was somehow safe and protected from Rico's pattern of his use of fists on women who do not comply with his demands?
Fortunately for her he wasn't armed as he *DID* have justification to use lethal force.
The Florida Statutes on self defense claims do give the initial aggressor or party who presented a danger of harm to another party(aggressor would be Rico since it is established that he was the party who initiated a threat from the get go) the right to rely on the use of lethal force if the party who feels threatened responds with the use of disproportional force. Because of that specific statute, Marissa's response to what she established would turn out to be harm on her person and potentially fatal to her is then deemed disproportionate to the threat Rico presented.
