Robert Woodall, 35, was freed from prison on an appeal after serving 11 years, but may have to prepare to return.  Back in 2004, Woodall and his partner, Stephanie Walker, were living in Orlando, Florida, when their second child, a boy, was born.  Walker suffered from severe postpartum depression following his birth.  The relationship grow tense, and Woodall left.  At the time, he was doing really well for himself making $3000 a week, but began to hang out with an influential crowd of wrongdoers.  Walker went back to her hometown of Houston with the kids.  

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The Florida statute “was for repeat offenders robbing liquor stores and pawn shops and using a firearm,” Greg Newburn, a policy expert at Families Against Mandatory Minimums, said of the inappropriateness of using Bush's statute in this case. “They weren’t really thinking of scuffles that got out of hand where someone fires a gun at the ground.”The family has been forced to make contingency plans as they prepare to hear from the state Supreme Court. They are making changes to their day to day to accommodate the worse, and Walker is readying herself to take over the lawn business.“If he goes back, they’ll be starting their own lives when he gets released,” she said of their boys. “And you just have to hope the system will do them justice, too.”

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