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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (3862)	3/20/2002 10:37:06 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

The evidence on which Tafero and Jacobs had been convicted and sentenced was identical; it consisted mainly of the perjured testimony of an ex-convict who turned state's witness in order to avoid a death sentence. If you trust perjured testimony of people who were recompensed for lying, then I see why you feel fine about the fact that Jacobs was released while her husband was executed. Has Jacobs killed anyone since?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (3862)	3/20/2002 10:59:42 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The evidence on which Tafero and Jacobs had been convicted and sentenced was identical; it consisted mainly of the perjured testimony of an ex-convict who turned state's witness in order to avoid a death sentence. If you trust perjured testimony of people who were recompensed for lying, then I see why you feel fine about this death. A selection of exculpating circumstances you omitted in your account: Tafero always maintained his innocence. There were two eyewitnesses, both of whom said in their first statement to the police that Tafero was held over the hood of the police car while all the shots were fired. Jesse did not have enough gunpowder on his hands to prove conclusively he fired a gun. Neither did Jacobs or their nine year old son (all had some, consistent with, for example, cleaning a weapon.) Rhodes did. A witness saw Rhodes move from the front to the back of the car to put him into position for shooting the police officers, directly contradicting his trial testimony. Rhodes confessed to the murders at three different times: in 1977, in 1979 and in 1982. All three recantations became public. In 1977, Rhodes bragged to two inmates that he alone committed the double murder. A prison guard named Jowers overheard the confession. Witness Jowers gave a formal statement to the prosecutor's investigator, but that statement was never turned over to Tafero's lawyers. The prosecutor said he relied on a polygraph in giving Rhodes a plea bargain to second-degree murder. Later, three polygraph experts confirmed that Rhodes did not pass the polygraph and one said it was the most botched test he had ever seen. A day after securing death penalty convictions against Tafero and his co-defendant Sonia Jacobs, ass't DA Satz announced he was running for DA. Elected largely on this high profile case. (He's the one who lied about Rhodes' polygraph test.) The Judge in the case, Daniel Futch, had the nickname "Maximum Dan" and he displayed a miniature electric chair on his desk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So you, JC, may feel fine about that execution. I don't, because the murderer, who confessed to the crime, was used to pin the crime on the wrong person. Did someone say they never saw glee about executions? I just saw some about the execution of a man who was framed.