Correction
It should have read that in the transcripts of William
Cook's March 1982 trial, Cynthia White revealed there was a
passenger in Cook's Volkswagen.
White's testimony is important because the prosecution
insists that only Cook--Mumia's brother--plus police officer
Daniel Faulkner and Mumia Abu-Jamal were involved in the
incident.
Mumia's legal team argues that one or two other
persons--possibly the passenger White referred to--shot
Faulkner, and several witnesses testified to seeing one or
two people run from the scene. The defense also charges that
witnesses were forced to change their stories to comply with
the official police theory of what happened.
Further evidence of another person at the scene was a
driver's license application form found on the body of the
deceased officer. This piece of evidence was suppressed by
the prosecution in Mumia's June 1982 trial. If it could be
linked to the reported passenger, it would have cast doubt on
Mumia's guilt.
These and other points on Mumia's legal appeals can be
accessed in Petitioner's Motion and Memorandum to Review for
Reasonableness, the State Court's Findings of Fact Pursuant
to 28 U.S.C. SS2254(d)(2) and the Fifth, Eighth and 14th
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
www.mumia2000.org/alerts/
brief120.html, and Memorandum of Law in Support of Petition
for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. SS2254,
www.walrus.com/~resist/mumia/
120899memotoc.html.
Joe Piette
Philadelphia
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