Mick Clifford: The performance of innocence — what Sunny Jacobs’ story left out
Peter Pringle and his partner Sunny Jacobs near their home in Co Galway. Picture: Andrew Downes
Last Monday I received an email relating that Sunny Jacobs was going to appear at an event at the Law Society in Dublin next Thursday. Sunny hadn’t crossed my radar since her husband Peter Pringle died over two years ago.
She was scheduled to talk at Blackhall Place on the importance of pro bono legal work for death row inmates. This was a continuation of the campaigning she and Pringle had done for over twenty years, advocating for various miscarriage of justice groups on the basis that they had each suffered their own horrifying miscarriage. That was the narrative anyway. Whether it coincided with the facts was another matter.
