Reunion Hug

Thu., Nov. 25, 1999

An American woman who spent three years in a Peruvian jail on drug charges is back. “She’s wore out,” her father, Dennis Davis, said Wednesday. Jennifer Davis, 22, an aspiring model, and her roommate, Krista Barnes, 21, of Redondo Beach, Calif., were jailed in September 1996 on charges they were paid $5,000 to smuggle eight pounds of cocaine out of Peru. The women confessed and were sentenced in March 1998, but their codefendants appealed. Because their cases were tied to those of their codefendants, they had to start the. trial process al I over again. The two women were sentenced again this spring to six years in prison and a fine of $1,300. This time there was no appeal. Peruvian law requires prisoners to serve one-third of their sentences before being eligible for parole. Davis and Barnes served almost half.

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