SUPREME COURT DENIES MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S APPEAL

BLACK REVOLUTIONARY DENIED JUSTICE AGAIN!!!
BLACK REVOLUTIONARY AND FORMER BLACK PANTHER PARTY MEMBER IS DENIED JUSTICE AGAIN!!!
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by Mumia Abu Jamal and his lawyers
for a new trial. The former member of the Black Panther Party and award winning
radio journalist has remained on Pennsylvania’s death row ever since his
conviction in 1982 for the murder of a white Philadelphia policeman Daniel
Faulkner. In letting the conviction stand, the High Court dismissed without
comment Abu-Jamal’s claim that the composition of his jury improperly excluded
African-Americans. His chief defense attorney, Robert R. Bryan, has said that
racism was central to the selection of the jury in the case. Joseph McGill, the
prosecuting attorney in the Abu-Jamal case, has stated that he used 10 of his 15
peremptory challenges to exclude potential African-American jurors. Such a strike
rate eventually led to there being only two African-American jurors in the trial
of Abu-Jamal which took place in Philadelphia; a city that in 1982 was comprised
of 40% African-Americans. The Supreme Court’s ultimate rejection of Abu-Jamal’s
appeal has been seen by some of his supporters, as well as detractors, as his last
chance for a new trial.