A former Black Panther member who was convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphiapolice officer will get a chance at a new appeals hearing after a prosecutor dropped his opposition to it.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, 64, was sentenced to death for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, who had pulled his brother over during an overnight traffic stop. He was tried in absentia after attempts to serve as his own lawyer.
District Attorney Larry Krasner dropped his argument against Abu-Jamal, giving him a fresh chance at a new appeal despite arguing it could affect a large number of other convictions. Krasner agreed that then-District Attorney Ronald Castille – who presided over the Abu-Jamal case – shouldn’t have worn “two hats.”
A 1990 note Castille sent to then Gov. Robert Casey said “police killers” should get death warrants to “send a clear and dramatic message to all police killers that the death penalty actually means something.
Maureen Faulkner, David’s widow, said Krasner broke a promise to tell her about his decision before announcing it.
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Let him out. This will work itself out naturally.
…I think we just found the Democrats’ 2020 Presidential candidate…
“Abu-Jamal & Michelle Obama. Let’s Finish Off America Together!”
Instead of chanting Free Mumia it should have been Fry Mumia
Liberal/leftists/fascists need street thugs to intimidate political opponents.
If this murderer is released, he’ll be welcomed into the dried out bosoms of maxine waters, pelosi, or Fat Mike obama.
no surprise there:
“Final campaign reports show Soros dropped another $211,000 late in the game, bringing his total spending on behalf of Krasner to nearly $1.7 million.”
https://whyy.org/articles/soros-weighed-in-with-even-more-money-in-das-race/
soros has been buying DA’s and state’s AG’s.
kim foxx didn’t even get that much from him.
Did I ever mention that liberals love cop killers?
@Supernightshade April 19, 2019 at 1:11 pm
> …I think we just found the Democrats’ 2020 Presidential candidate…
>
> “Abu-Jamal & Michelle Obama. Let’s Finish Off America Together!”
RACIST! The 22nd Amendment only says The One can not be ELECTED more than twice. Vice President Barack could become President Barack, as long as he isn’t elected. You just don’t want a black(ish) man to be that close to the throne.
“Abu-Jamal/Obama
2020”
(More syllables than Buttigieg/Biden!)
How has he not been strangled by his dreds by now?
If he gets out and somebody offs him, it’ll be an exercise in jury nullification.
at lest himz haz krack-appeal.
‘in to the volcano for this one’
…N.E.X.T
oh, and off wit himz hed!
is that a penis growing out of the right side of his lower lip?
He should be sprung from jail.
Philly cops will give him a 5-minute head start out of the prison gates.
Wesley Cook’s birthday is April 24th. Bury him in the ground for Earth Day.
IF mumia is granted an appeal/re-trial, capital punishment should be on the table.
Pennsylvania has the death penalty
Somebody should send him clippings of Terrence Johnson’s suicide.
Neither Johnson’s nor Abu-Jamal’s (Wesley Cook’s) death is any loss to the the Universe.
izlamo delenda est …