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    Tiffany Ann Cole - Florida



    James and Carol Sumner, both 61



    Tiffany Ann Cole



    Facts of the Crime:

    Tiffany Cole was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of James and Carol Sumner on March 6, 2008.

    On the night of July 8, 2005, Cole, along with codefendants Michael Jackson, Bruce Nixon, Jr., and Alan Wade, robbed, kidnapped, and murdered the victims. The Sumners were friends with and previous neighbors of Cole’s father before they moved from the Charleston, South Carolina, area to Jacksonville, Florida. The plan to rob and murder the victims evolved from knowledge Cole already had about the victims and information she obtained from the victims in the weeks prior to the crimes. In June 2005, Cole and her boyfriend, Michael Jackson, went to Jacksonville to visit Jackson’s friend, Alan Wade. While in Jacksonville, Cole contacted the victims, and Cole and Jackson stayed one night at the victims’ home. During the visit, Mrs. Sumner confided to Cole that she and Mr. Sumner had recently sold their home near Charleston and had profited $99,000.

    Following the initial trip to Jacksonville and additional trips between Charleston and Jacksonville, Cole, Jackson, Wade, and Wade’s friend, Bruce Nixon, developed a plan to rob the victims. Nixon testified that the foursome planned the robbery together and Cole was the one who knew the victims and who “set everything up.” The foursome ultimately decided they would kill the victims. Two days before the murders, Cole, Jackson, and Wade picked Nixon up in a Mazda RX-8 that Cole rented from an agency in South Carolina. The group selected a remote location in Georgia, just across the Florida State line, to dig a large hole. While Cole held a flashlight, Jackson, Wade, and Nixon dug the hole, which was approximately four feet deep and six feet square. The group left the shovels at the hole when they completed the excavation.

    On July 8, 2005, Cole and her codefendants purchased duct tape and plastic wrap. Later that night, Cole drove the foursome to the victims’ home. Initially, Cole and Jackson remained outside in the rented Mazda. Wade and Nixon knocked on the door and, when Mrs. Sumner responded, Wade asked to use her telephone. After Mrs. Sumner allowed Wade and Nixon into her home, Wade ripped the telephone cord from the wall. Nixon held the victims at gunpoint with a toy gun, took the victims to a bedroom, and bound them with duct tape. After Wade and Nixon contacted Jackson through Nextel two-way radio phones—which the group used to communicate throughout the course of the crimes—Jackson entered the victims’ home. Jackson and Wade then searched the victims’ home for bank account records. Cole drove down the street and waited in the Mazda. Eventually, the victims were taken to their garage and forced into the trunk of their Lincoln Town Car. Cole drove back to the victims’ home in the Mazda after Jackson called her. Jackson placed a trash bag containing some of the victims’ belongings in the Mazda’s trunk and got into the Mazda. Wade and Nixon then drove the victims’ Lincoln, with Cole and Jackson following in the Mazda, to the remote Georgia location where they had previously dug the large hole. Upon arrival, Cole remained with the Mazda at the edge of the road, while her codefendants drove the Lincoln into the woods to the hole. At some point, Nixon joined Cole at the road. The evidence shows that only Jackson and Wade were present at the hole when the victims were put into the hole and buried alive. When Jackson returned from the woods to the Mazda, Jackson had the personal identification number (PIN) for the victims’ automated teller machine (ATM) card. The foursome drove both cars from the grave site to Sanderson, Florida, where they wiped down the Lincoln and abandoned it. The foursome then left in the Mazda, with Cole driving.

    Upon being arrested, Nixon revealed to law enforcement officers the location where the victims were buried, and on July 16, 2005, the victims’ bodies were discovered. Dr. Anthony J. Clark, medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, performed autopsies on the bodies and testified that both of the victims died as a result of mechanical obstruction of the airways by dirt. Essentially, the victims were buried alive and asphyxiated from the dirt particles smothering their airway passages.

    Cole was sentenced to death in Duval County on March 6, 2008.

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    Michael Jackson and Alan Wade were both convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and each received two death sentences.

    For more on Jackson, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...t=tiffany+cole

    For more on Wade, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...rida-Death-Row

    Bruce Nixon, Jr. pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder. After testifying against Cole, Jackson, and Wade, Nixon received two concurrent sentences of 45 years’ imprisonment.

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    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jurors on Thursday recommended that the woman who helped kill a Jacksonville couple be put to death.

    The day in court was filled with emotional testimony during the sentencing hearing, bringing convicted killer Tiffany Cole to tears at times.

    Cole is one of four people involved in the murders of Carol and Reggie Sumner, a St. Nicholas couple who were robbed and then buried alive in 2005.

    The same panel of 12 jurors who convicted Cole on first-degree murder charges decided to recommend a judge sentence Cole to die for her crime.

    The three others responsible for the Sumners' deaths have already been sentenced. Michael Jackson, the man prosecutors called the ringleader of the murder, got the death penalty. Coconspirator Allen Wade was also sentenced to death. Bruce Nixon testified for the state against the others and received 52 years in prison.

    During Cole's hearing, several relatives of the victims took the stand and told the jury how Cole should pay for the crime she committed.

    "I miss you and love you dearly. You will always be a part of my heart," Reggie Sumner's sister, Jean Clark, said in court. "I grasp to the memories of your nurturing love and to the pictures of you. This I'll hold dear until the time we meet again. Carol and Reggie are gone but not forgotten."

    She told the jury Cole deserves the harshest punishment for her crime.

    However, Cole's family said the woman was led by Jackson, and it begged for mercy.

    "She always had everybody's well-being. She always tried to make sure that she looked out for you and you did the right thing, even if she was getting in trouble herself. She would try to make sure that she gave advice to you to make sure that you didn’t make the same mistake she did," said Cole's cousin, Amber Jones.

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    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tiffany Cole, the last of the four defendants convicted of killing a St. Nicholas couple by burying them alive has been sentenced to death.

    Cole was convicted in the 2005 murders of Reggie and Carol Sumner, an elderly couple from Saint Nicholas, Georgia. In November, a jury voted 9 to 3 in favor of the death penalty for the 27-year-old woman’s role in the murder of the couple.

    Two suspects, Michael Jackson and Alan Wade, have already been sentenced death. The four suspect, Bruce Nixon, will spend over 40 years in prison because of a plea deal he struck with prosecutors.

    The Sumners, who were both 61-years-old, were kidnapped from their St. Nicholas home, forced to give up their pin number to their ATM card and were then were buried in a shallow grave in south Georgia.

    With today's sentence Cole becomes the only woman on death row in the state of Florida. She will be the third woman put to death since the death penalty was reinstated.

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    Only Fla. woman on death row appeals sentence

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A lawyer for the only woman on Florida's death row urged the state Supreme Court to spare her life Tuesday because she didn't know her co-defendants planned to kill a couple they had kidnapped and robbed by burying them alive.

    Tiffany Ann Cole, 27, was convicted of first-degree murder for the deaths of James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner, both 61, of Jacksonville. Two men also have been sentenced to death in the case, and a third is serving a 45-year prison term as the result of a plea deal.

    The Sumners were taken at gunpoint from their home in July 2005. They were bound with tape, placed in the trunk of their car and driven across the state line into Georgia. They were buried in a shallow grave after being forced to give out personal identification numbers for their financial accounts.

    Circuit Judge Michael Weatherby of Jacksonville ruled Cole deserved the death penalty in part because the manner of death was especially cruel.

    Assistant Public Defender W.C. McLain of Tallahassee argued the judge erred in citing that factor because the other defendants never told her what they had in mind after abducting the couple.

    "There was no indication that they were going to be buried alive," McLain said.

    Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carolyn Snurkowski acknowledged Cole was unaware but said the judge also listed six other aggravating circumstances, including the fact that more than one person was killed.

    The judge had also cited the victims' vulnerability because of their age and disability. Additionally, the judge noted the killings were a cold, calculated act committed for financial gain.

    The justices also were troubled because Weatherby did not explain why he cited the manner of death. Trial testimony indicated Cole was not at the grave site when they were buried but was waiting in the woods nearby, supporting the notion she didn't know about the plan to bury the victims.

    "We're engaging in a lot of speculation," said Justice Barbara Pariente.

    If the justices don't uphold the death sentence, they could send the case back to the trial judge for reconsideration or order an entirely new sentencing hearing with a new jury.

    The trial jury had voted 9-3 to recommend death.

    Cole's boyfriend, Michael Jackson, and Alan Lyndell Wade also were sentenced to death. Prosecutors allowed Bruce Kent Nixon to plead guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for his testimony against the others.

    McLain also argued that Cole was no more responsible than Nixon because neither person actually killed the victims, yet Nixon received the lighter 45-year sentence.

    Snurkowski, however, said the death penalty was warranted because Cole introduced the victims to the killers. Cole also bought tape and gloves for the crime, and held a flashlight while her co-defendants dug the grave, she said.

    McLain also argued the judge should not have allowed the prosecution to introduce photos of the suspects partying because they were irrelevant.

    Florida has executed only three women in its history: a slave named Celia in 1848 who was put to death for murdering an elderly planter; Judy Buenoano in 1998; and Aileen Wuornos in 2002.

    Buenoano, nicknamed the "Black Widow," was electrocuted for poisoning her husband with arsenic in Orange County. She also was convicted of drowning her paralyzed son while canoeing on a Panhandle river and of attempting to kill her fiance in Pensacola with arsenic and a car bomb.

    Wuornos was executed by lethal injection for the murder of a Clearwater man but also pleaded guilty to killing five other men along central Florida highways while working as a prostitute.

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    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The woman found guilty of killing a San Marco couple in 2005 has lost her appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.

    Tiffany Cole was sentenced to death in 2007 for the murders of James and Carol Sumner after being convicted of two counts each of first degree murder, kidnapping and robbery.

    Cole appealed her sentence, and today the Supreme Court upheld the conviction and sentence.

    Cole, Michael Jackson and Alan Wade all were sentenced to death for burying the Sumners alive just across the state line in Georgia.

    The fourth defendant, Bruce Nixon, pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

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    Case Information:

    Cole filed a Direct Appeal in the Florida Supreme Court on 03/19/08. In that appeal, Cole argued that the trial court erred in (1) admonishing defense counsel for a cross-examination question to the State‘s witness, codefendant Nixon, concerning the parameters of Nixon‘s possible sentence under his plea agreement; (2) admitting photographs showing Cole and codefendants Jackson and Wade partying in Myrtle Beach before the murders; (3) instructing the jury on and in finding the avoid-arrest aggravating factor; (4) instructing the jury on and in finding the HAC aggravating factor; and (5) imposing death sentences that are disparate compared to codefendant Nixon‘s sentence of 45 years. Cole also contends that Florida‘s death penalty scheme is unconstitutional under Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002). The Florida Supreme Court did not find errors that warranted reversing the conviction or sentence. On 03/11/10, The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence.

    On 08/03/10, Cole filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court. That petition was denied on 10/04/10.

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    Watch the full story, "A New Nation of Women Behind Bars," a Diane Sawyer "Hidden America" special, airing Friday, Feb. 27 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.

    'We call if life row': Two of the youngest women on death row describe life behind bars

    When Tiffany Cole and Emilia Carr walk down the hall in Florida's Lowell Correctional Institution for Women together, they seem more like smiling girlfriends than convicted felons sitting on death row.

    Cole is now 33, and Carr is now 30. Carr is the youngest woman in the United States sitting on death row, and Cole is the third youngest. The two women are behind bars for committing two separate crimes, and they had separate lives until they arrived as neighbors on the famous death row corridor at the women's correctional facility in Ocala, Florida.

    "We call it 'life row,'" Carr said. "It's life row ... because we're not dying, we're living."

    Carr, who is from Ocala, and Cole, from Jacksonville, Florida, share a similar path.

    Prior to their incarcerations, neither had ever spent a night in jail, they said. Cole played the flute in high school, and participated in cheerleading and Girl Scouts. Carr was book smart and modeled, she said, and was in the school Marines, which was her high school's Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program.

    Both said they were sexually abused and got into trouble after they met the "wrong people."

    "[I was] looking for love in all the wrong places," Cole said.

    When she was 25 years old, Cole was convicted on murder charges after being connected to the death of her family's neighbors, Reggie and Carol Sumner, who suffocated to death from dirt in their lungs when they were buried alive. She has acknowledged she helped dig a grave, but said she thought it would be to hide the items that she, her boyfriend, a guy she had known for three weeks and two of his friends had stolen from their victims. A psychiatrist at Cole's trial said she suffered from mental problems and had a history of drug and alcohol abuse.

    "I am not the same person anymore," Cole said. "I have peace, I have joy. I have a sound mind."

    The jury was shown a damning photo of her celebrating after the crime was committed. She was given the death penalty, which she is in the process of appealing.

    Carr was 26 years old and eight months pregnant with her boyfriend's child when they were both convicted of suffocating his wife with duct tape and a plastic bag. Carr argued she left the scene before the woman was killed.

    "Wouldn't there have been physical evidence? I mean, duct tape is some sticky stuff, yet there's no finger prints, no DNA, no hair," Carr said.

    But there is video of Carr being interviewing by police, recorded after her boyfriend confessed and implicated her in the crime. On the tape, Carr is heard telling an officer that the boyfriend asked her to "try to snap her neck," and then Carr says, "I didn't really try."

    She was convicted of capital murder and given the death penalty, which she is in the process of appealing.

    Legal experts say the average appeals process takes 10 to 12 years for death row inmates. Carr has been on death row for four years, while Cole has been on death row for seven years.

    Both women are reluctant to give details about their cases under appeal, but both insist the murders they were convicted of were done at the hand of their boyfriends, not them. Both say they are not arguing for their release, just for their lives, to have their executions stayed.

    Both refuse to believe they will be executed.

    "You can't have that mentality, because that means you've accepted this," Carr said.

    "You've already died... you're already dead," if you accept that, Cole said.

    In response to Cole appealing her conviction, the prosecutor who handled her case, Jay Plotkin, said in a statement to ABC News, "I was a prosecutor for more than 20 years. There was not any case that I prosecuted where the crime was more vile or cruel than the torture and murder of the Sumners. This case lingers on in the heart and soul of our community. Ms. Cole is certainly entitled to, and should, exhaust all of her legal rights to appeal. I am personally confident that she received more than adequate representation and a fair trial."

    The prosecutor in Carr's case, Rock Hooker, declined to comment to ABC News while the appeals process was still pending.

    According to the National Academy of Sciences, one in 25 people on death row is innocent.

    Thirty-five states have death penalty statues, according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics from December 2014, and Florida is one of five states, along with California, Texas, Pennsylvania and Alabama, that hold 60 percent of the nation's inmates on death row.

    "It's legal murder," Cole said.

    "How many rich people go to prison?" Carr asked. "We're all minorities. We're all people who are either minorities or didn't have any, any money, any way to say, 'Hey, let me buy my freedom,' because it's not free in this country. Unfortunately, equality is an illusion."

    Seventy-five percent of Americans accused of a crime cannot afford a private attorney, with racial minorities being the majority of those who cannot afford one. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 79 percent of state public defender systems were overloaded.

    For years, Carr and Cole have been locked in their cells 24 hours a day. Three times a week, they are allowed to go outside for two hours at a time -- on concrete, not grass.

    "I haven't touched grass in six years," Carr said. "So it's the small stuff you take for granted, you really do."

    Carr has four children, but she is forbidden from seeing them.

    "I think about them every day," she said. "Before I really even came to know God, that was the hardest thing for me to cope with day in and day out, was being away from my kids. ... When I got here, my hair was falling out just from stress."

    Both Carr and Cole say they try to do something useful with their time behind bars. Carr reads everything she can from history to science fiction.

    "I'm reading on Native Americans in Florida, but I'm trying to get some stuff on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.," she said. "I love history."

    The women say self-help books and religion have changed everything for them. They have even put religious songs to a kind of dance and, from time to time, they share small moments when they sing and laugh together.

    "We're not just up here doing nothing," Carr said. "We're up here living and, you know, finding joy in a situation like this and praising God in the process, you know, and just showing people. We're people."

    "It's not over," Cole said. "There is forgiveness and there is hope."

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    Woman on Death Row wants new trial in kidnapping disabled couple, burying them alive

    The only white woman on Florida’s Death Row will ask the Florida Supreme Court to throw out her conviction and death sentence this week for robbing, kidnapping and burying a disabled Jacksonville couple alive.

    Lawyers for Tiffany Cole, 33, will argue the attorneys who represented her during her criminal trial in Jacksonville were ineffective. Cole was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, armed robbery and kidnapping. A jury recommended death by a 9-3 vote and Circuit Judge Michael Weatherby concurred.

    Cole was one of four people who kidnapped Carol and Reggie Sumner, both 61, from their St. Nicholas home in 2005 and drove them to Charlton County, Ga., where they were buried alive.

    Michael James Jackson, 27, the mastermind of the murder plot, and Cole’s boyfriend, Alan Lyndell Wade, 27, are also on Death Row. A fourth participant, 27-year-old Bruce Nixon, testified against the others and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for second-degree murder.

    They were arrested in Charleston, S.C., a week after the Sumners disappeared. Police found Jackson with the couple’s ATM cards and personal information.

    In court filings attorney Wayne Henderson, who’s representing Cole on appeal, argues that defense lawyers Quentin Till and Greg Messore did a poor job during both the criminal trial and the sentencing phase of Cole’s case. Oral arguments in Cole’s appeal will occur Thursday.

    Henderson argued that Till, the lead lawyer, expected to reach a plea deal for Cole and was unprepared for trial when Cole rejected the state’s offer.

    Cole didn’t believe she was guilty of first-degree murder because she didn’t personally kill the Sumners, saying that she did not “bury the bodies and therefore was not guilty.” But under Florida law someone who participates in a crime can be found equally culpable for a murder even if they didn’t pull the trigger or directly cause the death.

    Henderson also argues that Messore, who handled the penalty phase, was unprepared because he didn’t join the case until a month before Cole’s trial began and was only properly certified to be a lawyer in death-penalty cases days before Cole’s trial began.

    “Cole’s appointed trial counsel was ineffective in both the guilt and penalty phases for failing to adequately investigate her background and psychological deficiency in order to show that she was under extreme duress and effectively under the control of her co-defendants during the time of the offense,” Henderson said. “Had trial counsel sufficiently investigated Cole’s psychological makeup and history, they would have discovered that Cole does not interact well with men and is generally fearful, intimidated and willing to please.”

    Till and Messore never investigated Cole’s mental-health or dysfunctional family history and substance-abuse problems. During the penalty phase, the jury heard nothing about Cole’s low intelligence level and mental health.

    Cole was an abused child who started running away at 12. She left home as a teenager and turned to drugs and prostitution, Henderson said.

    Cole’s lawyers also didn’t object to evidence that had been seized in the case or make a motion to suppress statements Cole made after she was arrested. Till has acknowledged that he made a tactical decision to use Cole’s statements because he believed they supported their contention that she was a minor participant in the crime and a good person who got caught up with bad men.

    But a large amount of the information introduced at trial, including that the Sumners’ strongbox was found in Cole’s car, hurt Cole and letting it in had no strategic benefit, Henderson said.

    But prosecutors respond by saying that Till and Messore put on a solid defense.

    Assistant Deputy Attorney General Carolyn Snurkowski, in filings to the Supreme Court, argues that Till did look into Cole’s mental health but decided the best defense would be to portray Cole as a non-violent good person who exhibited aberrant behavior after getting involved with Jackson.

    Till believed that bringing out the bad parts of Cole’s life would not help her with the jury and preferred they not know that she’d been a prostitute and dealt drugs, Snurkowski said.

    During a hearing to throw out the conviction, Till also testified that the strategy in the guilt phase was to show that Cole’s participation was marginal, she was not involved in the killings and didn’t know that the Sumners were going to be killed.

    Till also said during that hearing that Cole had admitted to him that she had a bigger role in the kidnapping and murder than she’d previously said, Snurkowski said.

    Till and Messore could not be reached for comment.

    The Florida Supreme Court previously affirmed Cole’s death sentence in 2010. It did disagree with Weatherby’s finding that Cole’s behavior in the killing was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel because Cole didn’t bury them alive herself, but the court found that error didn’t justify setting aside the conviction or death sentence.

    This second appeal occurred after Henderson moved to throw out the original conviction, and Weatherby denied the motion.

    Cole was the only one of the four who knew the Sumners. At one point the couple were friends and neighbors with Cole’s father in South Carolina, and they had sold a car to Cole and told her she was welcome at their house if she was ever in Jacksonville.

    The plan to rob and murder the Sumners evolved from knowledge Cole had about the couple.

    There are 394 people on Death Row and five of them are women. Two women are black and the other two are Hispanic.

    It is unclear how long it will take the Supreme Court to rule on Cole’s appeal. But death-penalty appeals usually take months to decide after oral arguments occur.

    http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2...e-burying-them

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    Reverend Jean Clark, the sister of murder victim, Reggie Sumner


    Sister of murdered man reacts to new trial request

    Woman on death row appealing murder conviction over ineffective attorneys

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A woman sitting on death row for the 2005 kidnapping and murder of a Jacksonville couple will go before the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday.

    Tiffany Cole, 33, will be asking for a new trial after appealing that the attorneys who represented her at the time were ineffective.

    Cole was one of three people convicted in the case. Alan Wade, and Cole's boyfriend, Michael Jackson, the man believed to be the mastermind of the crime, are also sitting on death row. A third man, Bruce Nixon, testified against the others and is 45-years in prison.

    Prosecutors said the group kidnapped, robbed and buried Carol and Reggie Sumner alive in Charlton County, Georgia.

    Reverend Jean Clark, the sister of Reggie Sumner, believes Cole not only got a fair trial, but she believes the lawyers who represented Cole were more than competent. Clark also asks that people remember Reggie Sumner, and his wife, Carol, not Cole.

    “We believe that they got a fair trial. And we believe that they got the right, you know, what was due to them,” Clark said.

    For Clark, the last 10 years have been very hard and very painful. Every day, she thinks about her brother and his wife. Still, her thoughts are never far from the four people involved with their murders and the woman now asking for a new trial.

    “Most people are going to try to come back with something like that after the fact, because they're going to try to find a loophole and get off. But justice has a voice, and justice has to be served,” Clark said.

    According to police, Cole knew the Sumners and had even bought a car from them. They say she provided the link to the couple who were kidnapped, robbed and murdered, their bodies found in a shallow grave in Georgia.

    Photos taken after the murder from inside a rented limo show the group enjoying the money they stole, unconcerned with the two lives that had just been lost.

    But during her trial Cole pointed the finger of blame at her boyfriend, Jackson.

    "But please remember, I didn't do this. I am not the monster that created this, but I regret meeting him," Cole said, talking about Jackson.

    For Clark, the thought of possibly going through another trial weighs heavily on her heart, and undoubtedly, on the hearts of many others who loved the Sumners.

    “I have family members that are still not the same and never will be the same. In fact, I don't like to involve them too much into things like this, because they can't deal with it,” Clark said.

    Clark remembers the Sumners as a couple very much in love, who would do anything for anybody and all she wants is justice.

    "And as I sat in a court room one day, I saw the ground open, and I saw in it a hurtling scream come out. And the blood of my brother and sister-in-law, my brother, Reggie, and my sister-in-law, Carol, cried out for justice. Justice has a voice," Clark said.

    Cole’s hearing before the Florida Supreme Court begins Thursday at 11:30 a.m. and News4Jax will be at the courtroom.

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    Death sentence vacated by the Florida Supreme Court today due to Hurst.

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