#266 Maggie Freleng with Faye Jacobs

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

February 9, 1992 started as a normal day for 16 year old Faye Jacobs – she attended church and hung out with friends in Little Rock, AR. When she and her mom drove home later, they passed bustling police activity. Intrigued, they stopped the car and got out. Suddenly, Faye was grabbed, pushed against the car and arrested for the shooting murder of Kevin Gaddy, a classmate of hers. Despite exculpatory alibi and eye witnesses, Faye was sentenced to life without parole. Maggie speaks to Faye Jacobs, Tricia Bushnell Esq. Faye’s attorney, and Tiffany Woods her girlfriend. To learn more and get involved, visit: https://www.change.org/p/asa-hutchinson-support-the-pardon-of-laquanda-faye-jacobs https://lavaforgood.com/with-maggie-freleng/ Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	Like, I've been thinking a lot about, you know, the difficult decision of having to decide
0:07.8	if you want to take an alpha plea, if you want to take any kind of plea, I mean, if I
0:12.9	was put in that situation, would I stay in prison to fight for my innocence knowing I might
0:20.4	never get out or take a deal, get out, and then you can't fight for your innocence after
0:27.0	that.
0:28.0	It's a literal Sophie's choice, Maggie, right?
0:30.0	I mean, you have this intense pressure.
0:34.2	You know that they have the ability to say, hey, we're going to leave you sitting in jail
0:38.4	or prison for a year, two years or more while you await your retrial.
0:44.2	Many, many strong willed and brave and brilliant people have taken the plea because there's
0:51.4	really no way out.
0:52.6	And they just want to go home.
0:53.6	They just want to get out.
0:54.6	Yeah, they have to go home.
0:55.6	Yeah.
0:56.6	I didn't comprehend that I was going to prison for the rest of my life.
1:03.4	I'm thinking to myself, are you saying that I can never be with my parents again?
1:08.0	I can never go back to my bed, you know, my home.
1:10.8	So I'm losing all my friends.
1:12.6	I mean, all this is going to be taken, are you kidding me?
1:18.6	From Lava for Good, this is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freeling.
1:22.4	Today, Laquanda Faye Jacobs.
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