Judge denies Florida woman's 'stand your ground' claim
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Inset: Daisy Link (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami (Google Maps).

The Florida woman who drew national attention for her jail pregnancy without directly meeting the child’s father has had her “stand your ground” defense rejected, following her alleged shooting of her husband. The judge pointed to her “calm and joking” behavior as a reason for the denial.

Attorneys for 30-year-old Daisy Link recently submitted a “stand your ground” claim, asserting that Link shot Pedro Jimenez in 2022 at their residence in Homestead in self-defense, fearing for her own life. She faces charges of second-degree murder.

“Link was in a strained relationship with the victim, characterized by prolonged physical abuse and domestic violence,” her attorney Antonio Tomas detailed in an August 14 filing.

Tomas referenced Florida Statute 776.012, which allows for deadly force if someone reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious injury to themselves or others.

A person who uses such force is “justified” and is “immune from criminal prosecution,” Tomas argued.

“Substantial evidence in the case indicates that Ms. Link acted out of acute fear, believing Mr. Jimenez intended to inflict fatal harm upon her,” Tomas argued.

Link had “reasonable cause to believe that she was in a situation where she had to either defend herself or die,” her lawyer said.

However, the judge rejected this defense during a hearing on Monday. Circuit Judge Lody Jean cited Ring camera footage in which Link was recorded saying, “I think I hit a major artery; you’ll be fine,” after the incident, as reported by WPLG.

“One of the key pieces of evidence is the Ring camera and the behavior of the defendant after the shooting, which included a calm and joking demeanor,” Jean said.

Link is next scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

As Law&Crime previously reported, Link became pregnant despite never meeting with the father face to face. Link and Joan Depaz, 25, spoke to local Fox affiliate WSVN from inside the Miami-Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation last year. She told her family in a phone call on Christmas 2023 that she became pregnant while an inmate in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. She delivered the baby girl in June 2024. Family members are raising the baby.

Link previously told her family that she got pregnant after Depaz passed his semen in plastic wrap through an air conditioning vent. In the interview with WSVN, Link and Depaz described how it happened in further detail.

Link said she started speaking with Depaz through air conditioning vents in their cells.

“Being in isolation for so long you begin to spend hours and hours talking to this person, you know, to the point where it’s almost as if you’re in the same room with them,” she said.

Then Depaz professed his desire to become a father after they became romantically involved. Seeing that he is in jail on a first-degree murder charge, it may be a while, if ever, before he’s a free man, he reasoned. So the two hatched a plan. They claimed they tied bedsheets together and ran them through the vents and into their cells.

“I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight,” Depaz told the TV station.

Said Link: “He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent and I would pull it through. From there, I had placed it inside of, you know, the yeast infection applicators? I had placed it inside of there and then from there, yeah, I administered it.”

And just like that, the pair claim, she became pregnant.

The two seemed proud of their feat.

“She’s a miracle baby, she’s a blessing,” Link said.

When asked if he ever physically touched Link, Depaz went Biblical.

“Never, like the Virgin Mary,” he said.

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