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Judge Orders Philly DA to Disclose All Evidence in Mumia Abu-Jamal Case. Could It Lead to New Trial?
“Supporters of imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal are celebrating a decision by a Philadelphia judge on Friday to order the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office to share all of its files on the case with Abu-Jamal's defense team. Judge Lucretia Clemons gave prosecutors and the defense 60 days to review the files, including many that Abu-Jamal's team has never seen. The judge is then expected to rule on whether to hold a new trial for the former Black Panther, who has been imprisoned for over 40 years for his 1982 conviction in the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. His supporters have long claimed prosecutors withheld key evidence and bribed or coerced witnesses to lie, and documents found in the DA's office in 2019 show Abu-Jamal's trial was tainted by judicial bias and police and prosecutorial misconduct."
REGARDING THE RECENT PROCEEDING IN THE CASE OF MUMIA ABU JAMAL, the International Movement for Reparations in Matinique (MIR) stated,
"Unprecedented, Never seen, is the fact that the Working Group on People of African Descent (set up at the UN in Geneva in the follow up of the Durban 2001 conference) produced a memorandum (attached) for put pressure on the judge (put pressure... or reassure her that she is no longer alone) who was hearing Mumia on December 16. With the effect that the Judge (black) clearly dared to change her decision. The OHCHR (through a group of experts on people of African descent), weighing on an internal decision of a US court relating to a former Black Panther, ....something has happen here."
HERE IS THE WORKING GROUP OF EXPERTS ON PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT AMICUS CURIE BRIEF:
REMEMBERING THE PEOPLE’S INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR JUSTICE FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAIL, an excerpt from my book, From Yale to Rastafari
“In November 1997, I organized the Peoples of Chicago Ad-Hoc Committee in Support of Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal (PCMAJ) which traveled to Philadelphia on December 4th for the Peoples’ International Tribunal for Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal held at the Blue Horizon on December 6th. The trip was free to all 11 delegates which included two elders and the Rastafar Livity Nyabinghi Choir. In addition to hanging a large banner of Bob Marley that read, “How Long Shall They Kill Our Prophets?” we drummed and chanted Nyahbinghi during the Tribunal. There, I met Sundiata Sadiq, Gamal Nkrumah (Kwame Nkrumah’s son) and Julia Wright, daughter of famed author Richard Right. I presented a brief outlining international legal arguments and justifications for an international rescue team to rescue Mumia Abu-Jamal from prison to Adekoye Akinwole (Herman Ferguson), a Tribunal Judge, one of the original signers of the Republic of New Afrika’s Declaration of Independence, and the RNA’s first Minister of Education. I had hoped that my brief or parts of it would make it into the Tribunal’s Indictment that was delivered on December 10 to Dr. Purification Quisumbing, Director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office in New York.
‘ I am concerned,’ I said to Baba Adekoye Akinwole, ‘that should they begin to march brother Mumia to the gas chamber, that no one will attempt to rescue him. I ask you, a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), what is to be done?’ Baba Adekoye’s response while receiving my brief was,
