Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Von: "Steve Zeltzer" <
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- Betreff: Fwd: Mumia Abu-Jamal - Legal
Update
- Datum: Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010 18:51
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- Message
from
- Robert
R. Bryan
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- > From: "Howard Keylor"
<>
- > Date: June 9, 2010 9:17:59 AM PDT
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- > Dear All:
- >
- > There are significant
developments on various fronts in the
- > coordinated legal campaign to
save & free Mumia Abu-Jamal. The
- > complex court proceedings are
moving forward at a fast pace. Mumia’s
- > life is on the line.
- >
- > Court Developments: We are
engaged in pivotal litigation in the
- > U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit, Philadelphia. At stake
- > is whether Mumia will be executed
or granted a new jury trial on the
- > question of the death penalty.
Two years ago we won on that issue,
- > with the federal court finding
that the trial judge misled the jury
- > thereby rendering the proceedings
constitutionally unfair. Then in
- > January 2010 the U.S. Supreme
Court vacated that ruling based upon
- > its decision in another case,
& ordered that the case be again
- > reviewed by the Court of Appeals.
- >
- > The prosecution continues its
obsession to kill my client,
- > regardless of the truth as to
what happened at the time of the 1981
- > police shooting. Its opening
brief was filed April 26. Our initial
- > brief will be submitted on July
28. At issue is the death penalty.
- >
- > In separate litigation, we are
awaiting a decision in the
- > Pennsylvania Supreme Court on
prosecutorial abuses, having completed
- > all briefing in April. The focus
is on ballistics.
- >
- > Petition for President Barack
Obama: It is crucial for people to
- > sign the petition for President
Barack Obama, Mumia Abu-Jamal & the
- > Global Abolition of the Death
Penalty, which was initially in 10
- > languages (Swahili & Turkish
have since been added). This is the
- > only petition approved by Mumia
& me, & is a vital part of the legal
- > effort to save his life. Please
sign the petition & circulate its
- > link: www.MumiaLegalDefense.org.
- >
- > Nearly 22,000 people from around
the globe have signed. These
- > include: Bishop Desmond Tutu,
South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize);
- > Günter Grass, Germany (Nobel
Prize in Literature); Danielle
- > Mitterrand, Paris (former First
Lady of France); Fatima Bhutto,
- > Pakistan (writer); Colin Firth
(Academy Award Best-Actor nominee),
- > Noam Chomsky, MIT (philosopher
& author); Ed Asner (actor); Mike
- > Farrell (actor); & Michael
Radford (director of the Oscar winning
- > film Il Postino); Robert Meeropol
(son of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg,
- > executed in 1953); Fatima Bhutto,
Pakistan (writer); Noam Chomsky,
- > MIT (philosopher & author);
Ed Asner (actor); Mike Farrell (actor);
- > Michael Radford (director of the
Oscar winning film Il Postino);
- > members of the European
Parliament; members of the German Bundestag;
- > European Association of Lawyers
for Democracy & World Human Rights;
- > Reporters Without Borders, Paris.
- >
- > European Parliament; Rosa
Luxemburg Conference; World Congress
- > Against the Death Penalty; Geneva
Human Rights Film Festival: We
- > began the year with a major
address to the annual Rosa Luxemburg
- > Conference in Berlin, Germany,
sponsored by the newspaper junge
- > Welt. The large auditorium was
filled with a standing-room audience.
- > Mumia joined me by telephone. We
announced the launching of the
- > online petition, Mumia Abu-Jamal
& the Global Abolition of the Death
- > Penalty.
- >
- > A large audience on the
concluding night of the World Congress
- > Against the Death Penalty in
Geneva, Switzerland, February 25, heard
- > Mumia by telephone. He spoke as a
symbolic representative of the
- > over 20,000 men, women &
children on death rows around the world.
- > The call came as a surprise,
since we thought it had been canceled.
- > Mumia’s comments from inside
his death-row cell brought to reality
- > the horror of daily life in which
death is a common denominator.
- > During an earlier panel
discussion I spoke of racism in capital
- > cases around the globe with the
case of Mumia as a prime example. A
- > day before the Congress on
February 23, I talked at the Geneva Human
- > Rights Film Festival on the power
of films in fighting the death
- > penalty & saving Mumia.
- >
- > On March 2 in the European
Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, members
- > Søren Søndergaard (Denmark)
& Sabine Lösing (Germany) announced the
- > beginning of a campaign to save
Mumia & end executions. They were
- > joined by Sabine Kebir, the noted
German author & PEN member, Nicole
- > Bryan, & me. We discussed the
online petition which helps not only
- > Mumia, but all the condemned
around the globe.
- >
- > Donations for Mumia's Legal
Defense & Online Petition: The complex
- > litigation & investigation
that is being pursued on behalf of Mumia
- > is enormously expensive. We are
in both the federal & state courts
- > on the issue of the death
penalty, prosecutorial wrongdoing, etc.
- > Mumia's life is on the line.
- >
- > How to Help: For information on
how to help, both through donations
- > & signing the Obama petition,
please go to Mumia’s legal defense
- > website:
www.MumiaLegalDefense.org.
- >
- > Conclusion: Mumia remains on
death row under a death judgment. He is
- > in greater danger than at any
time since his arrest 28 years ago.
- > The prosecution is pursuing his
execution. I win cases, & will not
- > let them kill my client. He must
be free.
- >
- > Yours very truly,
- >
- > Robert
- > ---------
- > Robert R. Bryan
- > Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
- > 2088 Union Street, Suite 4
- > San Francisco, California
94123-4117
- >
- > Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- > www.MumiaLegalDefense.org
- >
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