Mumia
- Von: "Steve Bloom" < sblm@earthlink.net
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- Betreff: FW: PRESS RELEASE: MUMIA¹S ATTORNEYS DEMAND
SUPREME COURT HEAR TESTIMONY...
- Datum: Samstag, 31. August 2002
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- > -----Original Message-----
- > From: Tracy Kostenbader [mailto: tracytoast@earthlink.net
]
- > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002
- > Subject: PRESS RELEASE: MUMIA¹S ATTORNEYS DEMAND
SUPREME COURT HEAR
- > TESTIMONY...
- >
- >
- > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- >
- > MUMIA¹S
ATTORNEYS DEMAND
- > SUPREME COURT
HEAR TESTIMONY
- > FROM THE MAN
WHO SHOT DANIEL FAULKNER.
- >
- > PHILADELPHIA. Attorneys for death row journalist
Mumia Abu-Jamal
- > filed their> appeal brief in the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court on Tuesday, August 27,2002
- >
- > The appeal brief argues that Jamal is the innocent
victim of a frame-up by
- > corrupt police and organized crime and demands his
immediate release. The
- > attorneys are asking the court to invoke a
little-used procedure to itself
- > hear testimony under oath from ex-mob hitman Arnold
Beverly, who swears
- > that he was hired to shoot and kill Police Officer
Daniel
- > Faulkner and Jamal
- > had nothing to do with the shooting. Beverly states
in a videotape of his
- > confession that he will testify in any court.
Jamal¹s attorneys have
- > declined to disclose Beverly¹s whereabouts, stating
only that he is
- > ³underground² but has promised to come to court to
testify whenever he is
- > given the chance to do so.
- >
- > Jamal¹s appeal is also based on the sworn statement
of Court Stenographer
- > Terri Maurer-Carter who states that, at the time of
Jamal¹s trial in 1982,
- > she heard the trial judge, Albert Sabo, say in
reference to Jamal: ³Yeah,
- > and I¹m going to help Œem fry the n****r!²
According to Jamal¹s attorneys,
- > Sabo, who died earlier this year, never denied under
oath having made the
- > racist statement attributed to him by
Maurer-Carter. In their brief,
- > Jamal¹s attorneys excoriate Common Pleas Judge
Pamela Dembe for
- > ruling that> Sabo¹s racism was irrelevant and
that Jamal had no right to an impartial
- > judge, comparing her ruling to the pre-Civil War
³Dred Scott decision² in
- > which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Scott, a
Black slave suing for his
- > freedom, ³had no rights the white man is bound to
respect.²
- >
- > Prominent Los Angeles attorney Mike Yamamoto, who
was named ³Defense
- > Attorney of the Year² by the Criminal Justice
Section of the L.A. County
- > Bar, and is a member of the House of Delegates of
the American Bar
- > Association, filed an ³amicus² (friend of
the court) brief in support of
- > Jamal on behalf of unions from around the world,
including International
- > Lonshore & Warehouse Union Local 10 (San
Francisco),
- > International Longshore> Association Local 1422
(Charleston), National Association of
- > Letter Carriers> Golden Gate Chapter (San
Francisco), National Union of Journalists (United
- > Kingdom), and Independent Local Unions ³Zahyst²
and ³Uspih²
- > (Kiev, Ukraine).> The Yamamoto brief argues that
Mumia is innocent based upon an independent> review of
the evidence.
- >
- > Denver attorneys Watson Gallegher and Rich Garcia,
representing the Rocky
- > Mountains Human Rights Law Group, filed an
amicus brief in support of
- > Jamal, arguing that international human rights law
requires the
- > Pennsylvania> courts to hear the evidence which
proves that Jamal is innocent, including
- > the confession of Arnold Beverly.
- >
- > Philadelphia attorney Michael Coard is local counsel
on the amicus briefs.
- > Mumia Abu-Jamal is represented by British barrister
Nick Brown, Chicago
- > attorney Marlene Kamish, Los Angeles attorney Eliot
Lee Grossman, and
- > Philadelphia attorney J. Michael Farrell.
- >
- > FOR MORE INFORMATION:
- > Eliot Grossman (626) 943-1945, innjustice1066@yahoo.com
- > Mike Farrell (215) 925-1105; jmfarrell@earthlink.net
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