Mumia Abu-Jamal
For the last twenty years, a man has been locked up twenty-three hours a day in prison, denied contact visits with his family, and had his mail illegally opened by prison authorities. Now, one may ask, "What is wrong with this? This seems typical for the treatment of a guilty convict". In this particular case however, many believe that this man, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is innocent, and has been yet another victim of the corruption and racism of the United States judicial system.In December 1981, Abu-Jamal was working as a cab driver when he came upon a cop beating Abu-Jamal's brother with a flashlight. Abu-Jamal ran out to help his brother. There was a struggle, and both Abu-Jamal and the police officer, Daniel Faulkner, were shot. Witnesses saw one or more men run from the scene. When police officers arrived, Faulkner was dead. The officers then beat Abu-Jamal before taking him to the hospital. Suspiciously, it took them over half an hour to reach it. Due to fabrication of evidence and police manipulation of witnesses, Abu-Jamal was found guilty, in September 1982, of the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The trial and sentence were both terribly unjust, because there was truly not enough evidence a
Many believe that the police framed Mumia Abu-Jamal. Abu-Jamal was an active member in the Black Panther Party, and in the militant MOVE organization. When Abu-Jamal's lawyers obtained his FBI files, they found that he had been under government surveillance since he was fifteen years old. The judicial system in the trial was also biased. The racial bias of Philadelphia's courts has resulted in 120 people on death row, all but thirteen non-white. Also, the judge in Abu-Jamal's case, Albert Sabo, has sentenced more people to death row than any other sitting judge in America. Furthermore, the prosecutor removed eleven qualified African-Americans form the jury. He also argued for the death penalty because Abu-Jamal's membership in the Black Panther Party. Furthermore, Abu-Jamal was barred for most of his own trial for protesting an unprepared, court-appointed attorney who was later disbarred. The prosecution claimed that the shot that killed Faulkner came from Abu-Jamal's .38-caliber gun. Abu-Jamal was legally registered to carry the gun as a nighttime cab driver. This claim of the prosecution contradicts the medical examiner's report that the bullet removed from Faulkner's brain was a .44-calib
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