WASHINGTON (AP) — Mumia Abu-Jamal has lost his bid for a new trial in the killing of a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but held his death sentence invalid. The appeals court said it would not second-guess state court rulings rejecting Abu-Jamal's claims of bias in the composition of the jury.
So the title's a bit misleading and he's going to rot in jail for the rest of his life instead of getting the needle like he deserves. This whole cause célèbre thing is bullshit. The man killed a cop. The evidence is clear. He deserves to rot in jail.
I suggest reading this letter by Maureen Faulkner, widow of the police officer senselessly murdered by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Furthermore, there's this quote by Mrs. Faulkner:
A jury of 12 convicted Mumia Abu-Jamal of murdering my husband, and for 25 years Abu-Jamal has been on death row acting as if he was a Hollywood superstar or political prisoner . . . He has a voice, and my late husband doesn’t.
All in all, this whole issue is trumped-up ridiculousness by a bunch of hack academia loonies who are trying to prove that the whole system is RACIST~!~!~!~! Now, I'm not going to deny that there are issues with racism in our legal system. The numbers cannot lie. However, in this single case, calling it racism is a straw man. He killed a cop and there's more than enough proof.
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