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To: E who wrote (3848)	3/20/2002 10:29:21 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Here, folks is Jesse Tafero, "innocent man executed" Early on the morning of February 20, 1976, a Florida highway patrolman and his friend, a visiting Canadian constable, approached a car parked at a rest stop for a routine check. Jesse Tafero, Sonia Jacobs, their two children, and Walter Rhodes, a prison friend of Tafero’s, were asleep in the car. Allegedly, the patrolman saw a gun on the floor of the car. He woke the occupants and had Rhodes and then Tafero get out of the car. At some point after that, both the patrolman and the constable were shot. After fleeing the scene in the patrolman’s car, and then dumping the car, kidnapping a man, and stealing his car, the three were caught at a roadblock. Rhodes, Tafero, and Jacobs were all arrested. Rhodes turned state’s evidence in exchange for a plea to a lesser charge. Tafero and Jacobs were tried and convicted of capital murder. Yessiree, this is the "clearest case in recent years of an innocent man executed." All poor Jesse did was stand there, innocent, while a patrolman and a constable were shot dead. Then poor Jesse innocently went along with stealing the patrol car, leaving the cops dead in the street. Then Jesse innocently went along with kidnapping another man, and innocently ended up in that man's stolen car. Well, folks, this one sure convinces me. Poor innocent Jesse, just minding his own business, just a decent, stand-up kind of guy in the wrong spot at the wrong time, somehow winds up in the death house. Why don't we all start a collection for poor innocent Jesse's family. I'll bet the cop's widows will be among the first to contribute.