Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cosby 'Daughter' To Head to Prison > DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) -- Autumn Jackson, the woman > convicted of trying to extort $40 million from comedian > Bill Cosby by claiming to be his daughter, was > scheduled to report to prison today to begin serving a > 26-month sentence, her attorney said. > > Ms. Jackson, who is six months pregnant with twin boys, > will surrender to authorities at the Federal > Correctional Institution in Dublin, where she will > remain for 30 days before moving to a prison maternity > program in San Francisco, about 30 miles to the west, > said her New York attorney, Robert Baum. > > After the twins are born, in late July, she will return > to Dublin to complete her sentence. > > ``She's disappointed she has to surrender while she's > pregnant,'' Baum said. ``She was hoping to avoid the > stigma of having her children born in prison. She now > realizes that can't be avoided.'' > > Ms. Jackson was sentenced in December after testimony > showed she faxed a demand for the money on Jan. 16, > 1997, the same day Cosby's son, Ennis, was shot to > death alongside a Los Angeles freeway. > > The demand threatened to tell tabloid newspapers that > she was Cosby's out-of-wedlock child. Cosby admitted he > had had a sexual relationship with Ms. Jackson's mother > but denied Ms. Jackson was his daughter. > > Ms. Jackson's husband, Antonay Williams, was a > co-conspirator in the extortion plot. He was placed on > probation. Jose Medina, 54, was sentenced to more than > five years in prison as an accomplice in the case. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
