Mumia Abu-Jamal

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to Hear Mumia's Case

Datum: Montag, 6. Oktober 2008 20:03

 

 

US Supreme Court rejects new trial for former Black Panther

 

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WASHINGTON (AFP) The US Supreme Court Monday refused to hear

arguments for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther

accused of killing a police officer, who has become an international

symbol for the fight against capital punishment.

 

His lawyer Robert Bryan has already said he will seek to bring a

second Supreme Court appeal for the 54 former radio journalist accused

of the 1981 murder, this time for racism.

 

Abu-Jamal's death sentence was overturned in March by a federal court

in Philadelphia, which voted two-to-one to uphold his conviction,

which now automatically becomes a life sentence unless prosecutors

bring him back before a jury.

 

But Bryan has said he will not rest until client is freed. "Even

though the federal court granted a new trial on the question of the

death penalty, we want a complete reversal of the conviction," Byran

said in July.

 

Abu-Jamal has argued he was denied a fair trial in 1982 because the

prosecution barred 10 qualified African-Americans from sitting on the

jury, which in the end consisted of 10 whites and two blacks.

 

The Philadelphia appeals court had rejected his arguments on lack of

evidence of any racist intent on the part of the prosecution.

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