Take for example: the young food delivery man who allegedly stabbed real-estate agent Sean Schellenger in Rittenhouse Square , or the man who allegedly shot a South Philly grocery store owner , or the two men who pleaded guilty for killing police officer Robert Wilson III in a North Philly video game shop. Abu-Jamal is not a victim.
He is the darling of social justice warriors who see in him a chance to attack the establishment. More important, he and his lawyers have never provided legitimate proof that his conviction was tainted. His legal team has nothing more than bullhorns and grievance in their arsenal. Four decades of fact-finders and legal minds have echoed the same word: guilty. Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo. Link Icon. None of the other nine eyewitnesses recall seeing White at the scene of the crime.
Jenkins on March 5, saw White, who ran away and hopped into a pickup truck driven by former Philadelphia police officers Jenkins knew. It is likely White is being hidden to this day by the police to prevent her being called to testify by Mumia's legal team.
More on the mysterious "Lucky. However, Philadelphia homicide detective Douglas Culbreth appeared in court and successfully asked that White be released without having to post bail money, because she was "a Commonwealth witness in a very high profile case. When Jamal's legal team sought to find her for recent hearings, the prosecution declared that she was dead.
To support this claim, they produced a death certificate for a woman in another state with a different name, whose body had been cremated, and whose fingerprints did not match Cynthia White's. William Singletary. Singletary was a local businessman and one of the only eyewitnesses who saw the whole incident. Police suppressed Singletary's original statement that he saw a shooter fleeing the scene - a man whom by Singletary's physical description could not have been Mumia.
In a hearing, Singletary testified how he was coerced and intimidated by the police, who tore up his written statement and forced him to sign a different, false statement which they dictated. His version of events is supported by Dessie Hightower, who witnessed the 5-hour police interrogation of Singletary.
More witness manipulation. Veronica Jones confessed in a hearing that she was coerced by police into retracting her original statement about the case. Jones explained that she lied on the stand in exchange for receiving only probation on unrelated, pending felony charges. Robert Chobert, in a hearing, testified that he was offered a deal by the D. Trial Judge Albert Sabo.
Known as a "prosecutor in robes," Sabo has sentenced to death more than twice the number of people than any other judge in the country. Six former Philadelphia prosecutors have sworn in court documents that no accused could receive a fair trial in the court of Judge Sabo. Typical Sabo responses to virtually all defense statements were "Shut up! Stuart Taylor, Jr. Almost 30 years after his conviction for killing a police officer, Mumia Abu-Jamal has had his sentence revised and will no longer be a death-row inmate.
For many Abu-Jamal's case was less about the crime than it was about the man, and the moral justification of the death penalty. When Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted in of killing Daniel Faulkner, the courtroom was only half full. What came later was a global movement. Abu-Jamal became an international symbol for institutional racism and judicial abuse and a cause celebre for anti-death penalty advocates.
His face was a prominent image at anti-death penalty rallies, progressive gatherings and Beastie Boys concerts. By the s, his name had become a shorthand for injustice and racism within America. In doing so, his supporters turned Abu-Jamal from a man into a myth. Now, Abu-Jamal is off death row , serving a life sentence with no chance of parole. The decision came this week after years of appeals, cemented when the Philadelphia district attorney declined to pursue a new sentencing trial after a higher court declared the death penalty verdict invalid.
For supporters of the family of Daniel Faulkner, this case has always been about the death of the officer and the facts of the murder presented at trial: witnesses who placed Abu Jamal at the scene, Abu-Jamal's gun recovered nearby and a bullet from Faulkner's weapon lodged in his ankle. That numerous appeals from the Abu-Jamal legal team were denied by the courts only steeled their resolve that the facts were on their side. Supporters of Abu-Jamal maintain his innocence, and say he was a victim of a corrupt system.
For them, the focus of the case is less about the specifics of that night than the institutional problems within American law enforcement. The circumstances of the trial spoke to structural issues with the criminal justice system long argued by anti-death penalty advocates, says Shari Silberstein, executive director for Equal Justice USA.
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