Legal Opinion
Sonia Jacobs A/K/A Sonia Linder v. Harry K. Singletary, Marta Villacorta and Jim Smith
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 6, 1992No. 90-5293PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Senior Circuit Judge:
This case arises on appeal following the district court’s denial of Sonia Jacobs’ petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE
A. Background Facts
On the morning of February 20, 1976, Florida State Trooper Phillip Black (Black) approached a car parked at a rest stop on Interstate 95. Black was accompanied by Donald Irwin (Irwin), a visiting Canadian law enforcement officer. Black saw Walter Norman Rhodes (Rhodes) asleep in the driver’s seat, Jesse Joseph Tafero (Tafero) asleep in the front passenger seat, and Sonia Jacobs (Jacobs) and her children…
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