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Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal can reargue appeal in 1981 Philly police slaying
WHYY ^ | 12/27/2018 | ByBobby Allyn

Posted on 12/28/2018 11:22:27 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

A Philadelphia judge has reinstated appeal rights to Mumia Abu-Jamal — convicted of killing a city police officer more than 30 years ago — who has long maintained his innocence as his case gained international attention.

Lawyers for Abu-Jamal praised the decision by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker as a major step toward winning the former Black Panther’s freedom.

“This is an unheard of legal victory,” said Rachel Wolkenstein, former lawyer and longtime activist for Abu-Jamal. “This is the best opportunity we have had for Mumia’s freedom in decades.”

(Excerpt) Read more at whyy.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: blackpanther; blackprivilige; copkiller; mumia
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1 posted on 12/28/2018 11:22:27 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Does anyone seriously think this thug is innocent?


2 posted on 12/28/2018 11:23:55 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Lots of support. Fry mumia! 🔥😲
3 posted on 12/28/2018 11:31:18 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kid Shelleen
BJ Honeycut approves, even though he admitted in a debate with the slain Officers wife he never even read the court transcripts. She destroyed him in the debate. Mumia should have fried for “executing” Danny Faulkner.

Mumia is a POS. There is no question of his guilt.

4 posted on 12/28/2018 11:31:21 AM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Doesn’t this officer have any sons who would be willing to off Mumia in a courtroom? A cup of acid would be satisfying enough.


5 posted on 12/28/2018 11:32:10 AM PST by montag813
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sure, give him his freedom- when Danny Faulkner gets his.


6 posted on 12/28/2018 11:32:37 AM PST by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

If he was in a NY State prison, Cuomo would have already been pardoned him.


7 posted on 12/28/2018 11:32:54 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sad.

It appears that Mumia will never be executed.

5.56mm


8 posted on 12/28/2018 11:36:03 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Of course they will let him out. Pfft!


9 posted on 12/28/2018 11:38:06 AM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Wow.

“Free Mumia” is about two or three College Hipster SJW causes-célèbre in the now-forgotten past. He was superseded by “Free Tibet”, which ultimately went the same place Richard Gere’s gerbil did, and was replaced by “Free Occupied Palestine”. :P


10 posted on 12/28/2018 11:38:14 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kid Shelleen

Mumia is guilty as sin. IIRC, a bullet from Officer Faulkner’s gun ended up in his body, he made a series of damning admissions to hospital personnel after the shooting, and his own brother won’t stand up for him (the brother was at the crime scene, but would not talk at all). That said, I think ex prosecutor Justice Castille should have recused himself, if for no other reason than to prevent what just happened.


11 posted on 12/28/2018 11:40:27 AM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy."--Walter Williams)
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To: M Kehoe
It appears that Mumia will never be executed.

He was taken off Death Row in 2013 and moved into general population.

He's in poor health with diabetes and hepatitis C.

12 posted on 12/28/2018 11:42:37 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Kid Shelleen

Disgusting. That waste of carbon is guilty, guilty, and three times guilty.


13 posted on 12/28/2018 11:44:24 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I remember seeing FREE MUMIA spray painted all over the hood years ago. The hood rats of today don’t know who he is.


14 posted on 12/28/2018 11:46:45 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: M Kehoe

He was taken off death row awhile ago


15 posted on 12/28/2018 11:47:04 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I dont believe that he is innocent, however, the prosecutor should NEVER sit as a judge on a case that they prosecuted. The judge should have recused.

“If a judge served as prosecutor and then the judge,” wrote Tucker, summarizing the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Williams case “there is a finding of automatic bias and a due process violation.”


16 posted on 12/28/2018 11:48:05 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: BenLurkin

Heard the actual trial testimony. Eyewitnesses watched him commit the murder from beginning to end including his capture at the scene.


17 posted on 12/28/2018 11:50:39 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

A White man in his shoes would be dead now.


18 posted on 12/28/2018 11:52:05 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

In 1990, this murderous animal gave the commencement address to the graduates of Evergreen State College via telephone from his death row cell. What kind of school......


19 posted on 12/28/2018 11:58:06 AM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Not poor enough health.


20 posted on 12/28/2018 11:59:00 AM PST by Dahoser
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