MIAMI (Court TV) — Prosecutors dropped charges against a woman accused of attacking fellow inmates at a Florida jail after the alleged victims failed to come to court.
Daisy Link testifies in her murder trial on Oct. 15, 2025. (Court TV)
Daisy Link, 31, had faced three charges of battery on a detainee for separate incidents at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. At a Monday status hearing, prosecutors dropped two of the charges, saying they could not reach the victims to have them appear.
In the first incident, Link was accused of punching another inmate multiple times in the dayroom at the jail. In another incident, Link allegedly rushed a different inmate on May 25, 2026, and punched her “numerous times in the head, face and pulled her by the hair,” investigators wrote in court documents.
Link still faces charges for a third alleged incident involving a pediatrician accused of killing her children, Neha Gupta. In that case, Gupta said she was alone in her cell when Link entered and “punched [Gupta] in the face and head at least fifteen times.” The alleged victim said no words were exchanged before the attack.
Link has been in custody at the jail awaiting her retrial on charges that she killed her boyfriend. A jury convicted her of second-degree murder in the death of Pedro Jimenez, but that guilty verdict was overturned after an appeals court found that prosecutors improperly used photos during closing arguments that had never been admitted into evidence.
At trial, Link admitted shooting Jimenez, but said that she was acting in self-defense. Judge Lody Jean has not yet set a date for her new trial.
Link is scheduled to return to court to address both the assault case and the murder retrial in October.
