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8,000 Days And Counting: Justice Delayed In Abu-Jamal Case
The Black World Today ^
| Dec. 8, 2003
| Linn Washington Jr.
Posted on 12/09/2003 8:16:52 AM PST by End Times Sentinel
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Wesley Cook, Murdered Danny Faulkner Dec. 9th, 1981
The Proud supporters of a convicted Cop Killer
Whoopi Goldberg Ed Asner Mike Farrell Ossie Davis
Sting U.S. Rep John Conyers Susan Sarandon Paul Newman
The Citizens of Paris
Rest In Peace Officer Faulkner. You will not be forgotten.
May God's Strength Be yours Maureen Faulkner
(pictured with State Rep George Kenney-R)
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
To: Dr. Scarpetta; Temple Owl; Tribune7; PA Lurker; Boog26; Ciexyz; brityank; Physicist; ...
Philadelphia Ping, on a sad day...
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:18:57 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
("You white rednecks... this is what my momma taught me!"- Nathaniel Jones Former Cincinnati Resident)
To: Owl_Eagle
Geez, they haven't fried the SOB yet?
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:21:39 AM PST
by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: Owl_Eagle
Just an observation. The article bemoans non-specific changes in the way justice is normally distributed in this case; but no where in the article is there any mention that the person is actually innocent.
The article boils down to "Yeah, my client murdered a cop; but we don't like the way you found him guilty".
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:24:19 AM PST
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Owl_Eagle
"FRY, FRY, MUMIA!!!!"
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:25:16 AM PST
by
ElectricStrawberry
(1/27th Infantry...Nec Aspera Terrent!!!)
To: Owl_Eagle
The injustice is that this scum hasn't been voted off the planet.
To: Owl_Eagle
For example, because of the prosecution improperly withholding evidence, the jury never heard that the medical examiners initial autopsy report listed the murder weapon as a larger caliber gun than the pistol found at Abu-Jamal's side.Yeah, that proves it. The initial autopsy report must be 100 percent accurate.
FRY MUMIA!
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:55:21 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: IYAS9YAS
"Author/Intellectual?" Bawaaa aaaahhhhaaaaa
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:09:53 AM PST
by
marlon
To: Owl_Eagle
He should have been executed years ago.
To: boris
Didn't he win a court case a year or so ago throwing out the death penalty. Anyone?
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:47:04 AM PST
by
breakem
To: NativeNewYorker
While I am in no way against putting this piece of trash to death, I am content to see him suffer through his adult life with no freedoms.
Death, in his case is much to swift while spending his lifetime in jail is much more plesent to watch.
Living in jail for the rest of his life or being put to death - does not matter to me as long as he is not free to roam around with innocent people.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:47:39 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: Temple Owl
" San Francisco attorney Robert R. Bryan is not surprised to find cases ridiculed with misconduct "
Ridiculed? LOL Does he mean riddled?
And let's employ Occam's Razor here--Isn't it too big a coincidence to expect that a police officer just happened to pull over Abu-Jamal's BROTHER during this incident? Why would some unknown assailant shoot Faulkner? Doesn't it make a lot more sense that Mr. "Revolutionary" Abu-Jamal would be upset that his brother was pulled over?
That and all evidence points to him. They really can't expect people to believe that just because the initial autopsy report said a different caliber was used, that it cancels out all ballistics and further investigation that was done that proved the bullet matched Abu-Jamal's gun, can they??!!?
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:51:45 AM PST
by
Skywalk
To: Owl_Eagle; dighton; general_re; aculeus; Tijeras_Slim
After thirty years of doing death penalty litigation, San Francisco attorney Robert R. Bryan is not surprised to find cases ridiculed with misconduct by authorities intent on securing convictions irrespective of evidence of innocence.I feel a little ridicule coming on, myself.
To: Skywalk
They really can't expect people to believe that just because the initial autopsy report said a different caliber was used, that it cancels out all ballistics and further investigation that was done that proved the bullet matched Abu-Jamal's gun, can they??!!? Seems simple, doesn't it? Initial reports are preliminary. They are often corrected.
Now apply that principle to JFK's assassination and the 40 years of theorizing based, in large part, on initial impressions which somehow are not allowed to be corrected unless by a government conspiracy.
The Left is doing, in this case, what both Left and Right do all the time, depending on whose ox is gored.
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:02:33 AM PST
by
Taliesan
To: Owl_Eagle
Sure is nice to read a fair and balanced account of these proceedings. (NOT!)
To: Hodar
no where in the article is there any mention that the person is actually innocent.
Good catch. That would be a difficult thing for them to do since Cook has never asserted his innocence. He can't even get his own half brother, who was on the scene, to serve as a witness for him. It's kind of difficult to explain how Cook could have one of Faulkner's slugs in his chest and Faulkner have five of Cook's slugs in him, fired from a gun with only Cook's prints on it, further a gun purchased registered to and found lying next to Cook.
I guess when there's that big a mountain of evidence against you, you've got to look for procedural loopholes.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:11:33 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
("You white rednecks... this is what my momma taught me!"- Nathaniel Jones Former Cincinnati Resident)
To: breakem
Didn't he win a court case a year or so ago throwing out the death penalty. Anyone?
Fortunately, no. I don't think he's got much a chance of getting it thrown out with many of the upper level state officials involved in prosecuting the case at the time. Even the much maligned Gov. Toga, Ed Rendell oversaw Cook's prosecution. Cook will be sipping tea with allah in hell sooner or later, it's just a tragedy that Maureen Faulkner and Danny's friends and fellow officers should have to wait 22 years and still not see an end in sight.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:18:25 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
("You white rednecks... this is what my momma taught me!"- Nathaniel Jones Former Cincinnati Resident)
To: hellinahandcart
A spell-checker is no substitute for an education....
Abu-Jamal's two decades of solitary death row confinement is a literal lifetime...
"Literal" bump. No, really - I'm coming over to knock you down now.
:^)
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:19:40 AM PST
by
general_re
(Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
To: Owl_Eagle
I think your wrong about the court decision. Of course, I often suffer from old-timers disease. I'm a lazy poster and was hoping someone would have the info at their mousetip.
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:22:35 AM PST
by
breakem
To: general_re
"Literal" bump. No, really - I'm coming over to knock you down now. That confession is an event that will corrode your chance of a fair trial.
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