Hearing In Mumia Abu-Jamal Case Set For Tuesday
From stasiad
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
In 2008, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the former Black Panther a new sentencing hearing based on what it deemed flawed jury instructions. But the Supreme Court this year upheld a death sentence in an Ohio case with similar jury issues and has ordered the Philadelphia court to revisit ruling in Abu-Jamal’s case.
Assistant Philadelphia District Attorney Hugh J. Burns Jr. has called the case “indistinguishable from the Ohio case.” But defense attorney Robert Bryan has argued that differences between the facts of the two cases will enable the three-judge appeals panel to reach a different conclusion.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says Bryan withdrew from the case Friday after representing Abu-Jamal for seven years. Widener law professor Judith Ritter is to argue the appeal.
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