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Sabotage Alleged in Abu-Jamal Defense
AP ^ | May 25, 2003

Posted on 05/25/2003 2:42:27 AM PDT by sarcasm

PHILADELPHIA, May 24 -- Lawyers for convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal have accused his former attorney of "numerous acts of sabotage" in the case, including suppressing a confession.

In a motion filed Friday with the state Supreme Court, Abu-Jamal's lawyers claim their client's previous attorney, Leonard Weinglass, withheld information that could have exonerated Abu-Jamal in the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner during a traffic stop.

The lawyers contend Weinglass refused to admit a confession by a self-proclaimed hit man who said he was hired by the mob to kill Faulkner.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: mumia; wesleycook

1 posted on 05/25/2003 2:42:27 AM PDT by sarcasm
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To: sarcasm
every idiot who goes about with "free mumia" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
2 posted on 05/25/2003 3:17:52 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod (Deus Lo Volt!)
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To: sarcasm
AH, the life of a criminal defense lawyer:
3 posted on 05/25/2003 3:25:21 AM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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4 posted on 05/25/2003 3:35:07 AM PDT by Nitro
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To: Nitro
The truth of the matter is Wesley Cook sabotaged his own defense lawyer and acted guilty from beginning to end of his trial. No amount of historical revisionist spin now should or will save his ass from the just death penalty.
5 posted on 05/25/2003 3:45:30 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Ah! A guy out for my own heart!

Wesley Cook is his name, and to refer to him by the moniker he uses implies respect, which is something I do not have for a cop killer.

Obviously, neither do you.

Cheers!

6 posted on 05/25/2003 3:51:24 AM PDT by Houmatt (Homeschooling: Hope for our future!)
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To: goldstategop
I love your bloodthirsty approach to life...

but I am talking about killing Mumia...

legal, I mean electric.

7 posted on 05/25/2003 4:26:26 AM PDT by Nitro
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Fry his cop-killing ass. And don't forget, Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream helps to financially support this POS... Grrrrrrrrr!
8 posted on 05/25/2003 4:59:07 AM PDT by islander-11
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Fry Wesley Cook
9 posted on 05/25/2003 6:15:57 AM PDT by Drango (There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that understand binaries, and those that don't.)
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To: islander-11
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream helps to financially support this POS...

I bet if someone like Mumia came into his neighborhood, Cohen would have him arrested and would get the gate guard fired.

10 posted on 05/25/2003 6:18:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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The first step was to keep Wesley Cook from frying, which the hand-wringers and liars have done for 20 years now. The next goal is to get this POS freed entirely.

There has never been a clearer case of murder than that of Wesley Cook and Daniel Faulkner. If the Left can overrule this conviction, then they will have succeeded in throwing the entire judical process into disrepute, which is precisely what they intend.

This is why Cook must die.

11 posted on 05/25/2003 6:44:38 AM PDT by IronJack
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