Posted on 01/09/2014 5:30:10 PM PST by raptor22
Justice: The nominee to head the Department of Justice's civil rights division is a radical lawyer who fought to free from prison a cold-blooded killer of a Philadelphia cop.
On Dec. 9, 1981, Officer Danny Faulkner, 12 days from his 26th birthday, observed a car going the wrong way down a one-way street without its lights on.
He pulled over the vehicle, and the driver, one William Cook, got out of the car and began wrestling with Faulkner.
Moments later, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cook's brother (aka Wesley Cook), showed up at the scene with a .38-caliber handgun and opened fire, hitting Faulkner, eyewitnesses said, in the back.
Faulkner returned fire, wounding his assailant, who got off several more shots, including the one that hit Faulkner in the face at point-blank range, killing him.
Police found Faulkner fatally wounded and Abu-Jamal with a bullet wound in his chest and his .38-caliber handgun and five spent shell casings. Four eyewitnesses testified at his trial. A jury sentenced him to death.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1995, and in 1998 it refused to grant his request for a new trial. In 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Abu-Jamal's appeal.
In December 2001, a federal judge overturned his death sentence but upheld his conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a second appeal in 2010.
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How could any attorney with self-respect defend a cop killer?
And how can we have an attorney who had defended the guilty in a position of power in our government?
That piece of filth needs a short dance at the end of a long rope.
This is a finger in the eye by the black racists running the White House.
This attorney will use this position to attack non-blacks.
David Yeagley at BadEagle.com has written on the extremely bad idea of minorities ever “ruling” the majority (if the minority is Black, of course); it’s frightening. This is the most distressing story I’ve read in weeks. We are doomed; it’s payback for Whitey time, BIG TIME.
Do any of you know that John Adams represented the British soldiers that were involved in the Boston Massacre? Did you know that he won acquittal for them?
Should all reference to him as one of the founding fathers be stricken?
This obama appointee may be a POS, but hitting him for defending a client is the wrong way do go about defeating his nomination.
“Why Obama would appoint the lawyer for this killer to a top position is beyond me.”
Is it really? You really don’t know by now?
He did not defend him at trial. He gained fame by trying to overturn the conviction after several appeals.
Ed
Mumia will be appointed head of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This lawyer never wanted to free Mummia, too big of a pimp cause to milk.
People are stupid.
Of course the message is clear from Obama: whatever is wrong, Bush and white people’s fault.
It seems that the Obama Administration’s Holder DOJ does not look like America.
I heard Glenn Beck talking about this yesterday, and it really is horrifying.
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