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Jul 4, 1999 · When Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs went to prison for murder in 1976, her son was 9. Her daughter, 10 months old, was still nursing. When she was freed in 1992, her son was married with a child of his own and her daughter was a 16-year-old stranger.
Sonia JACOBS. Sonia Jacobs at NU Law (Photo: Loren Santow) Jacobs was a 28-year-old 'vegetarian hippie' when she was arrested after a 1976 shootout in which two cops were killed. Her first husband was executed for the crime before a witness recanted.
In 1976, Sunny Jacobs, a white woman, was sentenced to death for killing two police officers in Florida. She spent five years in isolation on Florida’s Death Row and 17 years in a maximum-security prison before her conviction was overturned and she was finally released.
Sep 24, 2012 · One of them is Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, who was arrested in 1976, after she and her partner Jesse Tafero were caught in a roadside gunfight in Florida that left two officers dead. Jacobs, Tafero,...
Nov 23, 2011 · NERMEEN SHAIKH: Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle each served a decade and a half on death row—Jacobs here in the United States, Pringle in Ireland. Both gained freedom after their convictions...
Nov 25, 2019 · Sonia Jacobs was convicted of the murder of a Florida state trooper and a visiting Canadian constable at a rest stop outside Miami in 1976; she was on death row for nearly five years before the Florida state court ruled the judge had improperly imposed the death sentence even when the jury did not.
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Feb 27, 2018 · Exonerees Sunny Jacobs and Cassandra Rivera featured in Innocence Project's 2018 Women's History Month campaign: Bearing the Burden of Love. Photo by Erin G. Wesley.
