Legal Opinion
Jacobs v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided March 26, 1981No. 50175PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
396 So.2d 713 (1981)
Sonia JACOBS, a/K/a Sonia Linder, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 50175.
Supreme Court of Florida.
March 26, 1981.
Ray Sandstrom of Sandstrom & Haddad, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Benedict P. Kuehne and Paul H. Zacks, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
2Per curiam
Jacobs was convicted of the first-degree murders of Phillip Black and Donald Irwin and the kidnapping of Leonard Levinson.[1] The jury recommended life sentences, but the trial judge sentenced her to death for the murders and imposed a life sentence for the kidnapping. This…
3Cases cited15 opinions
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4Cited by60 opinions
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- Holton v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1991
- Sonia Jacobs A/K/A Sonia Linder v. Harry K. Singletary, Marta Villacorta and Jim SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
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