No one disputes that Tyesha Long shot and killed her ex-boyfriend nearly five years ago.
But after spending almost three years in prison for manslaughter, she could soon walk free under a new Oklahoma law meant to give domestic violence survivors a second chance.
Long, 26, this month asked Oklahoma County District Judge Susan Stallings to revisit her sentence under the Oklahoma Survivors Act and consider that she was abused by her ex-boyfriend. Her attorneys at the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice hope the law will persuade the judge to reduce Long’s sentence to time served and send her back home to her family…