Wednesday, April 26, 2000
Tormenters ordered to pay $6M
Woman shot at and harassed
By
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BURLINGTON — Two brothers already convicted of hiring someone to kill Ryle High School teacher Sarah K. Jackson have been ordered to pay her more than $6 million for also humiliating, embarrassing and de faming her.
On Tuesday, Boone Circuit Judge Jay Bamberger told Terry Cope, 44, of Hendersonville, Tenn., that he must pay Ms. Jackson $8,800 in compensatory damages and $1.3 million in punitive damages for, among other things, shooting at her and her son outside their home on the morning of Jan. 22, 1999.
No one was struck by the shots.
In February, the judge ordered Randall Cope, 42, of Benton, to pay Ms. Jackson, his former fiancee, $3,300 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The awards were part of a civil defamation lawsuit that Ms. Jackson filed against the Copes.
“She is still fearful even though they (are) incarcerated today,” he said. “It's hard to imagine what that does to a person.”
Randall Cope has been sentenced to two years in prison for sending harassing e-mail messages in Ms. Jackson's name.
A federal jury also has convicted the Copes of hiring a contract killer to murder Ms. Jackson. They face life in prison when they are sentenced May 11 in U.S. District Court in London, Ky.
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