[news] Mumia's Attorney Responds to Philly DA

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

As reported in two recent Associated Press articles, the Philadelphia District Attorney has filed a motion asking the entire 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to recuse itself from black death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case [...]

[Supporters] feel that the DA’s request is actually designed 1) to delay the oral arguments [for appeal] and 2) to move Abu-Jamal’s case to a more conservative circuit that will be less sympathetic to the issues being presented for a new trial.

[...T]he Associated Press wrote, the DA allegedly "wants to leave Abu-Jamal no grounds for any future appeal."

Interview with Abu-Jamal's lawyer follows.

  


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