Legal update on Mumia Abu-Jamal

Published Jul 20, 2008 8:47 PM

On July 7, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia filed a petition on the case of death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Robert R. Bryan, lead counsel for Abu-Jamal, submitted the petition on June 27 focusing on the racist exclusion of Black jurors during Abu-Jamal’s original trial in 1982.

Abu-Jamal was convicted of first degree murder of a white police officer on July 3, 1982, and has been fighting for the right to a new trial to prove his innocence. He was denied the right to legal representation at his trial and was railroaded to Pennsylvania’s death row due to his revolutionary politics.

If the Third Circuit rules against the petition, the next appeal will be sent to the U.S. Supreme Court. Visit www.millions4mumia.org for more information.

—Monica Moorehead

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