Brook Shields performing as Sunny Jacobs, one of "The Exonerated"

At the Innocence Project Celebration of Freedom & Justice, Brooke Shields performed the Sunny Jacobs story from the award-winning Broadway play "The Exonerated":


The take-away: "Imagine everything you did between the years of 1976 and 1992. Now remove all of it. Those 16 years were taken away from Sunny Jacobs, convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit......it could happen just as easily to you."

Brooke Shield's reading took place on May 6, 2009 at the Innocence Project's Celebration of Freedom and Justice. Here's CNN's coverage: