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category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Monday January 18, 2010 19:52author by petitionist Report this post to the editors

To: President Barack Obama

WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition you to speak out against the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and all the men, women and children facing execution around the world. This ultimate form of punishment is unacceptable in a civilized society and undermines human dignity. (U.N. General Assembly, Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty, Resolution 62/149, Dec. 18, 2007; reaffirmed, Resolution 63/168, Dec. 18, 2008.)

Mr. Abu-Jamal, a renowned black journalist and author, has been on Pennsylvania’s death row for nearly three decades. Even though you do not have direct control over his fate as a state death-row inmate, we ask that you as a moral leader on the world stage call for a global moratorium on the death penalty in his and all capital cases. Mr. Abu-Jamal has become a global symbol, the “Voice of the Voiceless”, in the struggle against capital punishment and human-rights abuses. There are over 20,000 awaiting execution around the globe, with over 3,000 on death rows in the United States.

The 1982 trial of Mr. Abu-Jamal was tainted by racism, and occurred in Philadelphia which has a history of police corruption and discrimination. Amnesty International, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, “determined that numerous aspects of this case clearly failed to meet international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings. [T]he interests of justice would best be served by the granting of a new trial to Mumia Abu-Jamal. The trial should fully comply with international standards of justice and should not allow for the reimposition of the death penalty.” (A Life In the Balance - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, at 34, Amnesty Int’l, 2000; www. Amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/001/2000.)

Yours sincerely

Please go to:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

to send your message to President Obama.

author by Darren Cpublication date Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:04author email freemumia.ireland at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Date: January 19, 2010
From: Robert R. Bryan, lead counsel
Subject: Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row, Pennsylvania
United States Supreme Court decision, etc.

United State Supreme Court This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued the long-awaited ruling in
the case of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, which we have been litigating for 15 months. The decision was
as we expected. Mumia's case has been sent back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
Philadelphia, for further proceedings consistent with the decision last weak in another case:

“The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for further consideration
in light of Smith v. Spisak, 558 U.S. ___ (2010).”

The decision was unavoidable in view of the Spisak case ruling and is not bad. Now we must go back to
litigating the issue of the death penalty in the lower federal court. It previously ruled that the trial judge
misled the jury and thus Mumia was entitled to a new jury trial on the issue of death or life. That is still
the issue. What occurred in Mumia's case is different both procedurally and factually from the jury instructions
in Spisak. The prosecution disagrees.

Soon I will be posting more information on our website: http://www.MumiaLegalDefense.org. That may
checked regularly for updated information.

Petition for President Barack Obama: It is crucial for people to sign the petition for President Barack
Obama regarding Mumia, which is in 10 languages (“Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Global Abolition of the
Death Penalty”). Please circulate the petition as widely as possible, and of course sign. The link
is: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Mumialaw/petition.html.

Over 8,000 people, mostly from Germany, have signed in the recent days since we launched the petition.
These include: Günter Grass, Germany (Nobel Prize in Literature); Bishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa
(Nobel Peace Prize); Danielle Mitterrand, Paris (former First Lady of France); Fatima Bhutto, Pakistan
(writer); Noam Chomsky, MIT (philosopher & author); Ed Asner (actor; Mike Farrell (actor); and Michael
Radford (director of the Oscar winning film Il Postino).

There is a Facebook page for Mumia: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=407654295516&ref=mf

Conclusion Mumia remains on death row under a death judgment. He is in greater danger than at any
time since his arrest over 28 years ago. The prosecution has said it will continue pursuing his execution.

I win cases, and will not let them kill my client.

Yours very truly,
Robert R. Bryan
Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, California 94123-4117

Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Related links:

Mumia Abu Jamal Legal Defense: http://www.mumialegal.org/
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal: http://www.laboractionmumia.org/

author by johnpublication date Fri Jan 22, 2010 08:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Kangaroo Court that found Mumia guilty has numerous faults by law, 1) Jury selection tampering in which the Philidelphia Prosecution and police taught jury selection with a video that instructed the lawyers not to pick blacks, as they are not serious enough, and thereby won't find him guilty of murder, and won't consign him to death. It says pick whites to try blacks and that way guilty will take place. That is Mumia didn't get a trial jury of his peers. Also Judge Sabo was heard to say before the trial was over, that he was going to fry the N--ger. The witness that heard him say that was the court stenographer of the trial proceedings.

Further the witnesses later recanted their trial statements, and admitted they lied because the police had pressured them to find Mumia guilty. The only witness during the trial that did say she saw Mumia do the shooting was a prostitute known to the police, and she later said she lied on instructions from the cops, or else an old summons for prostitution would be served on her and she would go to jail. She later says she lied so she would not have to go to jail. Originally she said the killer ran away.

Forensics at the sight of the killing proves that Mumia was innocent as his gun was not the calibre of the gun that killed the cop, and the pictures taken at the scene (not allowed as evidence) later proved that one of the cops was lying (pugery) when he testified in court that he did not touch the gun so that evidence would not be tampered with. The picture shows that cop holdng the gun with his bare hands. Don't forget that it was Mumia shot by a cop, and he was on the ground, and close to dying. Later the cop who rode to the hospital with Mumia put on the statement of that nights duty, that Mumia did not say anything, that he was quiet. Later, two months on, he changed his statement and said that Mumia confessed that he killed the cop.

Later on a gangster hit-man confessed on video to killing const. Faulkner because Faulkner was turning in the cops for their collusion with the mob on prostitution, liquor, and drug dealing with mob. The FBI was investigating the Philidelphia Police at the time as a dishonest police department. Mumia was the journalist that was exposing the fraud to the govt. for prosecution, and was known to the cops. He was not the shooter. The pictures also tell the fact that the witnesses were lying, and saying what the pictures proved did not happen. Judge Sabo threw out all the evidence that might prove Mumia's innocence, and only allowed the frame-up evidence which the pictures prove were witness lies. There is so much more evidence that proves he is innocent, but the courts have disallowed the evidence. FREE MUMIA---he is innocent.

 
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