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New Sentecing Hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The Third Circuit has ordered a new sentencing hearing in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. The lengthy 118 page opinion is here and the Fox news story here. Faulkner's memorial site can me found here. Update: Michael C. Moynihan over at Reason's blog Hit & Run says: Remember Mumia Abu-Jamal, the cop-killing NPR contributor who rallied legions of campus radicals during the 1990s to protest his innocence? There was a time when every demonstration ?anti-globalization, anti-war, anti-whatever?featured an organized division of "Free Mumia" types. In 2002, the Paris City Council conferred honorary citizen status on Jamal, and in 2006 the city named a street after him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).