[breakem]

Is the state appealing or rehearing the sentencing phase. Or is it over?

[jpthomas]

I think it's over, but I'm not absolutely certain. The judge ordered the state of Pennsylvania to either conduct a new sentencing hearing within 180 days or sentence Abu-Jamal to life imprisonment. The state appealed this federal judge's ruling to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals back in December of 2001. I haven't heard what the result of that appeal was.