![]() ![]() These boxes also held the prosecutor’s handwritten notes indicating he was discriminatorily excluding Black people from Abu-Jamal’s jury. On October 26, Clemons indicated her intent to deny Abu-Jamal’s petition for a new trial but she will make a final decision on December 16 after hearing from the parties in the case. ![]() His attorneys, Judith Ritter, Samuel Spital and Bret Grote, argue that if the jury had heard newly discovered evidence that was withheld from him and not presented at his murder trial, Abu-Jamal would not have been convicted. On December 16, Judge Lucretia Clemons in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas will decide whether Abu-Jamal will receive a new trial. Following a shootout, Faulkner was shot and killed. Abu-Jamal, who was driving a taxi, coincidentally drove by and came to his brother’s assistance. Abu-Jamal has a serious heart condition and other life-threatening health problems.įaulkner stopped Abu-Jamal’s younger brother William Cook on the morning of December 9, 1981. ![]() In 2011, his sentence was reduced to life without the possibility of parole. After his 1982 conviction in the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death. The 68-year-old is a former Black Panther and the author of a dozen books, including the celebrated Live from Death Row. Award-winning journalist and author Mumia Abu-Jamal has been in prison for 41 years in a case infused with racism. ![]()
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