People v. Sanford

Opinion

HUMES, P.

Jacobi Sanford was convicted of second degree robbery and sentenced to four years in prison after a group of men, reported by witnesses to be African-American, robbed a jewelry store and escaped in two cars. By the time the police located one of the cars approximately 10 minutes after the robbery, Sanford, who is African-American, was a passenger in it. Otherwise, no physical evidence finked him to the robbery, no witnesses were able to identify him, and other, uncontroverted evidence indicated that at least one of the car’s occupants had changed between the time of the…