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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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