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More on the Mumia Ruling

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For those interested in more coverage of yesterday's federal court ruling in the Philadelphia case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, I want to link to Shannon Duffy's report in Law.com's Legal Intelligencer, "Mumia Abu-Jamal's Death Sentence Overturned, but Conviction Upheld."The long-awaited decision handed down Thursday in notorious cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal's federal appeal weighed in at 118 pages but changed nothing as the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling that upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but overturned his death sentence because of potentially confusing jury instructions. But a dissenting judge said he would also have ordered new hearings on whether Abu-Jamal can prove that prosecutors improperly struck blacks from the jury...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).