30 Years Later DA Drops Death Penalty Against Cop-Killing Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal
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PHILADELPHIA (The Blaze/AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year push to execute convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre.
Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison.
Flanked by police Officer Daniel Faulkner’s widow, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced his decision two days short of the 30th anniversary of the white patrolman’s killing.
He said that continuing to seek the death penalty could lead to “an unknowable number of years” of appeals, and that some witnesses have died or are unreliable after nearly three decades.
“There’s never been any doubt in my mind that Mumia Abu-Jamal shot and killed Officer Faulkner. I believe that the appropriate sentence was handed down by a jury of his peers in 1982,” said Williams, the city’s first black district attorney. “While Abu-Jamal will no longer be facing the death penalty, he will remain behind bars for the rest of his life, and that is where he belongs.”
Abu-Jamal was originally sentenced to death. His murder conviction was upheld through years of appeals. But in 2008, a federal appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing on the grounds that the instructions given to the jury were potentially misleading.
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in two months ago, prosecutors were forced to decide whether to pursue the death penalty again or accept a life sentence without parole.
Williams said he reached the decision with the blessing of Faulkner’s widow, Maureen.
“Another penalty proceeding would open the case to the repetition of the state appeals process and an unknowable number of years of federal review again, even if we were successful,” the district attorney said.
Widener University law professor Judith Ritter, who represented Abu-Jamal in recent appeals, welcomed the move.
“There is no question that justice is served when a death sentence from a misinformed jury is overturned,” Ritter said. “Thirty years later, the district attorney’s decision not to seek a new death sentence also furthers the interests of justice.”
According to trial testimony, Abu-Jamal saw his brother scuffle with the patrolman during a 4 a.m. traffic stop in 1981 and ran toward the scene. Police found Abu-Jamal wounded by a round from Faulkner’s gun. Faulkner, shot several times, was killed. A .38-caliber revolver registered to Abu-Jamal was found at the scene with five spent shell casings.
Over the years, Abu-Jamal challenged the predominantly white makeup of the jury, the instructions given to the jurors and the accounts of eyewitnesses. He also complained that his lawyer was ineffective, that the judge was racist and that another man confessed to the crime.
His writings and radio broadcasts from death row put him at the center of an international debate over capital punishment and made him the subject of books and movies. The one-time journalist’s own 1995 book, “Live From Death Row,” depicts prison life and calls the justice system racist.
He garnered worldwide support from the “Free Mumia” movement, with hundreds of vocal supporters and death-penalty opponents regularly turning out for court hearings in his case.
His message resonated on college campuses and in Hollywood. Actors Mike Farrell and Tim Robbins were among dozens of luminaries who used a New York Times ad to call for a new trial, and the Beastie Boys played a concert to raise money for Abu-Jamal’s defense.
Faulkner’s widow labored to ensure her husband was not forgotten.
Watch this chilling interview with Abu-Jamal from 2007. Does the subject matter sound eerily familiar?
“My family and I have endured a three-decade ordeal at the hands of Mumia Abu-Jamal, his attorneys and his supporters, who in many cases never even took the time to educate themselves about the case before lending their names, giving their support and advocating for his freedom,” she said Wednesday. “All of this has taken an unimaginable physical, emotional and financial toll on each of us.”
Amnesty International, which maintains that Abu-Jamal’s trial was “manifestly unfair and failed to meet international fair trial standards,” said the district attorney’s decision does not go far enough. Abu-Jamal still has an appeal pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court over the validity of ballistics evidence.
“Amnesty International continues to believe that justice would best be served by granting Mumia Abu-Jamal a new trial,” said Laura Moye, director of the human rights group’s Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Members of Philadelphia’s police community stood with Williams and Maureen Faulkner as the decision was announced. Former police union president Rich Costello blasted the courts for ordering a new sentencing hearing.
“Where do Maureen and the Faulkner family go for a reduction in their sentence?” Costello said. “For 30 years now, they have been forced to suffer grief, anguish, abuse, insults, intimidation, threats and every other sort of indignity that can be visited on a family already in grief.”
Faulkner lashed out at the judges who overturned the death sentence, calling them “dishonest cowards” who, she said, oppose the death penalty. The widow also vowed to fight any special treatment for Abu-Jamal behind bars, saying he should be moved to the general population after being taken off death row.
“I will not stand by and see him coddled, as he has been in the past,” Faulkner said. “And I am heartened that he will be taken from the protective cloister he has been living in all these years and begin living among his own kind – the thugs and common criminals that infest our prisons.”
It is also worth noting that former “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones has been an outspoken supporter of Abu-Jamal. Back in 2009, Verum Serum reported that Jones played a role in the production of an anti-Iraq War album narrated by Abu-Jamal and even featured in the album himself.
Jones was the founder and long-time executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights:
One of the Center’s projects that Jones was involved in has been little noted or discussed at this stage: a record label sponsored by the Center called Freedom Fighter Music. The label appears to have been created in the 2002-3 timeframe, and to have fizzled out by 2005-6. And apparently, Freedom Fighter only produced 2 or 3 albums.
However, one of these albums was an anti-Iraq-war compilation album that caught my attention because it was narrated by Mumia Abu Jamal, a Black Panther Party activist who is on death row for murdering a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. One of the controversies over Jones this week has been his prior statements and activity in support of Jamal.
The Jones statements VS referes to here stem from a 1999 San Francisco Bay Area protest held in support of
Abu-Jamal, one of his key advocates being none other than then-civil rights lawyer, Van Jones. The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
More than 150 demonstrators marched from 14th Street and Broadway to the Oakland Federal Building to demand that the Justice Department re-open its corruption investigation of the Philadelphia Police Department.
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row inmate convicted for the 1981 shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer, said the protest was called after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected claims that Abu-Jamal, a former radio journalist and Black Panther, did not receive a fair trial.
“We knew there was another event going on, but the timing of the court decision is what dictated when the protest was held,” said Van Jones, a San Francisco civil rights lawyer who helped coordinate the protest march.
Jones said about 15 protesters occupied the rotunda at the Federal Building on Clay Street in an act of civil disobedience with the hope they would be arrested.
A 2009 Washington Post article on Jones‘ resignation from the White House and the administration’s overall vetting problems also touched on Jones’ radical activism and support for Abu-Jamal:
His [Van Jones] involvement with the now-defunct Bay Area radical group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which had Marxist roots, also emerged as an issue. And on Saturday, his advocacy on behalf of death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of fatally shooting a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, threatened to further deepen the controversy. A White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter, said Sunday that Jones’s past was not studied as intensively as that of other advisers because of his relatively low rank.
Below is a clip from the album “WarTimes: Reports from the Opposition.” According to VS, Jones not only ran the organization that sponsored the album, but also featured on the album itself. VS highlights a clip featuring Mumia Abu-Jamal and some of the album’s more piquant song lyrics. The video also includes a short interview with Jones that begins around the 3:45 mark. Caution, explicit language is used:
Bold emphasis added by The Blaze.
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Comments (242)
Walkabout
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:28pmLose the n-word.
He was brought up on leftist ideology.
Report Post »The Catbird
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:27pmUnbloody believeable! This man should have been launched into eternity 29 years ago. Now, any side bets on a BHO pardon on 1/20/2013?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:37pmThe Marxist POS president will pardon the cop killer guaranteed.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:38pmThat was my first thought also .. can a pardon be far behind. Unbelievable .. all you have to do is get some celebs on your side and murdering a cop is no problem….d* mn.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:42pmI think he would have an “accident” soon after his release…
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:53pmFolks, the daily barrage of media releases we can scarcely believe is the Alinsky-style plan of pushing us. Progs are licking their chops waiting for someone on the right to get pushed to the breaking point. I’m becoming convinced they have a right-wing plant to unleash at the proper time to suspend elections. Obama sure seems unconcerned about winning the election next year as he continues to vacay and golf. He knows the next phase of the plan and isn’t worried one bit. God help us all!
Report Post »DeVain
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:53pmI agree. He should have been executed 30 years ago. Hell, he should have died from his wounds.
I just saw his mug shot from his arrest….how could it be mistaken identity unless there were a lot of black men with dreds to their waist running around the area at the time?
Report Post »Mad_as_Hell...
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:16pmHe may have to wait in line for that pardon behind Eric Holder, Jon Corzine and Van Jones
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:30pmMaybe he’ll slip on a bar of soap, down a flight of stairs.
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:31pmAnd the Conservative News Stations reports that this President has not done anything during his first term. A speech here, a vacation here, an excuse here and there – it’s not what this Marxist is doing in front of the cameras – it what he is doing behind the scenes.
Report Post »Sorocialism
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:31pmCop Killer Mumia and Blago will bot get the presidential kill a cop/sell a senate seat and get away with it free card
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:35pmWhat good is the court system when you can be on death row for 30 years? If you don’t win an appeal within 5 years you need to be put down… There is no law and order.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:40pmHe can talk about the Prison/Industrial Complex all he wants. It still has his a$$ locked up permanently.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:16pmPerhaps one of his fellow inmates will save us the trouble and shiv this POS.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:18pmCall your Congress Person and tell them this man needs to be turned lose. The policeman he was to have killed wan’t a union member. The Justice system was not fair. Here he has been in prison all this time and Bill Ayers got off – becama a college professor and gets a Federal pension.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:25pmOh please, i hope they put him into general population because if they do i am sure that the Aryan Brotherhood would just love to have a shot at him. Furthermore i am sure that after all the special treatment the prison guards have been forced to provide him, i feel sure the guards will turn a blind eye when the Aryan Brotherhood makes it’s move, and then justice will have finely been served for the cops widow, be it 30 years late.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:34pmThis craphole’s dreadlocks should be chopped off – at the neck.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:56pmIncredible!
A Black racist kills a White police officer (that is, btw, not even newsworthy in Philly these daze).
Then, he accuses a jury of not having the correct racial mix. Forget the evidence.
BTW, Van Jones should keep ‘his’ racist mouth shut before someone shuts it for him.
Listening to him would be like listening to Jeremiah Wright.
Holders’ DOJ may have to investigate this. That would remove any remaining doubt that White racism caused Jamal to be found guilty.
Heres the scenario…..the DOJ’s civil rights division and its voters section will steal the election with massive voter fraud. Obama gets back in for 4 more, then pardons Jamal when his 2nd term is done.
Otherwise, he may pardon him if the White man gets his act together and defeats Obama in 2012.
However, I don’t think us Whites have had enough of Black racism yet, and will split the vote, or… just not vote at all, allowing Hussein a second term.
You just wait and see! The election will be closer than in ‘08, but things are in place at the DOJ to take a close election for Obama. Black racism is rampant in the civil rights division. There will be widespread anger/suspicion of the fraud, and afterwards, there will be big trouble in the US.
Report Post »You think the racial divide is huge now? Wait till Nov 2012, my friends.
Mark my word!
riverdog1
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:04pmi doubt that obama will pardon him unless there is proof that he is inocent. so i will take that bet.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:08pmIn the Eastern US, the Southern US, and the Western US, there is growth in the “corrections industry”, says Jamal.
Report Post »Why is there none in the midwest and the northern states such as Vermont, NH, Maine? Maybe if we relocated Black thugs to those areas we could balance the “corrections industry” more evenly.
This racist is also a liar ‘and’ guilty of killing Faulkner. There was never doubt about that.
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:17pmA pardon- is that it? I would bet Eric Holder already has him on a “retainer”. .
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:20pmInternational trial standards? I seem to recall MAJ being American, murdering an American, in America, with an American weapon. Seems like American trial standards will do just fine.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:24pmTim Robbins named his son after a murderer Jack Henry
AND another Hollyweirdo hits the OFF buttton
My list of lefty actors is getting so long (I refuse to support their movies)….Think I will go watch Mister Ed or Green Acres….WAIT The Kardooshians have taken over NY (Park Place) so I guess I will watch I Love Lucy….:)
OMG=Obama MUST Go
Report Post »and yeah he’ll do a bunch of pardons just like BillyClinton did MARC RICH? Where are YOU?
marybethelizabeth
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:46pmBut he didn’t do it. He didn’t kill the cop. Someone else did it.
Report Post »MTCOWBOY711
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:58pmProbably will parole him to help “organize” polling stations next November.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:57pmVan Jones will need committed lieutenants when their revolution begins. Besides we need more targets.
Report Post »Modawg734Blue
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:18pm@ Copatriots, I believe you are right, but, they do not need a plant. Too many of the poeple on the right are ready to forget that the second amendment was put in place as a last resort. They are ready to step into the trap without thinking things through. For those who are ready to pick up arms; please refrain. They are counting on you to fire first. be patient. There is still another way. NG and MR are servants of the same master. Be ware. If you love the Constitution, the only choice I see is RP.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:05pmOf course he’ll be pardoned. The cops acted stupidly. Eveyone knows that. And then he’ll live his life and make money on books and movies while Danny Faulkner had his life taken from him at a young age. I honestly don’t know how his wife puts up with this clown, the media circus, and people like Van Jones, Michale Moore and Mike Farrel every time this piece of garbage come up for parole or wants to make noise.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:58pmAlong with Rezko and Blagio and probably Holder after F&F. The finger pointer in chief needs to maintain his status Quo when he moves out on the WH and back to Chicago, Thugs, all.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:29pm… So, we can only hope the prison population kills him … I don’t think so. Prisoners love COP KILLERS! Unless we cough up a couple cartons of Camels …
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:31pmI got my headlights turned off,
My shotguns sawed off,
Right about now I’m gonna dust some cops off…
Lyrics by Ice-T “Cop Killer”
How‘s that diversity workin’ out for ya? Ready to call it quits and turn back to that God whose Divine Providence brought the people of the Mayflower here to this land as their inheritance? Or are you still too strung out on the Pot and Pornography brought to you by the godless neo-commies for your enjoyment? Wake up, *******, the answer is in the book “The Culture of Critique” by Dr Kevin MacDonald.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:48pm@progressiveslayer
Report Post »Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:37pm
The Marxist POS president will pardon the cop killer guaranteed
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But, will he do it in time to WORK THE 2012 ELECTIONS?
platitude
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:50pmhe looks like bob marley, singing “i shot the sheriff”.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:53pm@pavepaws
Report Post »Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:40pm
He can talk about the Prison/Industrial Complex all he wants. It still has his a$$ locked up permanently
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Don’t believe in betting, but it’s not gambling to believe the inks probably already drying on the presidential pardon. Gotta prepay the panthers for their help as precinct watchers!
Mil Mom
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:59pm@WeekendAtBernankes
Report Post »Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:20pm
International trial standards? I seem to recall MAJ being American, murdering an American, in America, with an American weapon. Seems like American trial standards will do just fine
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But that’s soooooooo 20th century, we’re all citizens of the world now! OR WILL BE BY THE TIME BO AND MO ARE THROUGH FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING AMERICA!
The-Monk
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:12amI guess Eric Holder will retire and this guy will take his place in 2012.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:15amTreason… is the breakfast of Socialsts!
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 4:34amApparently you dumbasses don’t know that the President cannot pardon a state criminal. Under the Constitution, the President can only pardon those convicted of federal crimes. So no, he cannot and will not pardon Mumia.
Report Post »SCHEXbp
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 5:40amJustice Delayed is Justice Denied.
Report Post »Now it will be used as “proof” or justification that he isn’t really guilty. NJ did the same thing when it refused to re-try Ruben “Hurricane” Carter. That got overturned after so many years (racist jury selection or improper jury instructions or whatever) & the witnesses are gone & such, plus THE EXPENSE of a re-trial let the guilty go free, the Bob Dylan song notwithstanding
SoupSandwich
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:21am@ Carter
Report Post »Flash mobs… are they only a black urban thing or can we also utilize one for a blanket party for this swell guy? Sad state of affairs when a majority can see a pardon from the regime. Sad, sad times.
old white guy
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:51amjust one more victory for the commies.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:08amMIL MOM
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:48pm
@progressiveslayer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:37pm
The Marxist POS president will pardon the cop killer guaranteed
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But, will he do it in time to WORK THE 2012 ELECTIONS?
Usually a president will pardon someone just before leaving office,but with this heathen Marxist we’ve been inflicted with will pardon him at any time,the mask is off and he doesn’t care what the people think of his actions.
Report Post »sparta48
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:13amNo doubt along with a bunch of other people deemed “victims” of society
Report Post »go2mikerenzi
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:26pmFry Mumia
Report Post »GUNNSUP
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:53pmGood ol’ LBJ, what would we have done without him?
Report Post »platitude
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:42pmHow original.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:25pmNew sentencing hearing! B.S.!
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:42pmAny bets on time served? Same with Blago, 14 years will end with a pres. pardon just before obummer is run out of town post election.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:44pmHe’ll get time served and be lecturing at grade schools by spring.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:38pmand liberals say the conservatives are evil.
Report Post »Obama and his gang are evil personified and we MUST vote every last one of them out over the next few elections or we will live in their police state.
TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:25pmLunatic-left d-cRAT socialists like Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams simply love cop-killing psychopaths, and they do everything possible to help these savages get back into killing mode to do it again, or to ensure that they have a cushy and privileged existence in jail.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:24pmhopefully someone will take the initiative to kill him and quit whining about it.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:21pmIts a pile of Crap !!! He is as guilty as sin its self .I feel sorry for the family of the officer he murdered .Just because he’s black does not make it right.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:36pmNor should we have to support him with our tax dollars. He should be put out of our miseries.
Report Post »wzanesdad
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:05amDon’t worry….I’m sure the AB (arian brotherhood) and the mexican mafia has been waiting a long time for him to get into general population. He’s made a LOT of enemies.
Report Post »berlich
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:21pmI do not support the death penalty, but how does this serve justice. My thoughts go out to the family of the slain officer.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:21pmIf you are black, you can literally get away with murder. For more proof, ask OJ.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:24pmHopefully this piece of crap !!!! earned a front row seat in HELL
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:35pmOnly because white Americans are too weak to resume acting in their own interests instead of sacrificing themselves and their children on the altar of multi culti pc-ism.
Stop all race-based privileges now.
Report Post »Mo Better
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:53pmBonieBlue – you have nailed it! The idiot whites who have bought into the white-guilt and political correctnesss allow these kind of results.
Put this racist dog in the general population and see how long the hero worship lasts. Better yet put him back out on the street; perhaps someone not imbued with phony white-guilt and p.c. itis will do the right thing and put this dog out of our misery.
Report Post »skiz
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:21pmGo figure. Can we bring back hangings please. No, it has nothing to do with the crook being black. I dont care what color you are. When you murder you must die! Yeah, we will get it wrong on a few, but life is hell.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:19pmHe may escape the judgment now but he will not when he stands before GOD sure hope he like barbeque! I’m not talken chicken.
Report Post »vett
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:14pmWord !
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:49amLiberals show mercy to evil and kill the innocent…then they proclaim their own righteousness.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:18pmmillions of us hardworking taxpayers have been feeding this monster for 30 YEARS and he is still nothing but one of obama’s darlings.. once obama is removed from his dictatorship it should be time to start totally cleaning out the prisons, they are all converting into “obama’s private army” anyway. we suggest a nationwide specialty squad administering a simultaneous dose of Zyklon B to all max sec prisons. … if comrade fuhrer obama does not pull it first on our hospitals.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:18pmI see Obama and Holder behind the curtain…. Full pardon coming, Nov 2012, just watch…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:17pmThe appeal system needs to be over-hauled and changed to a set number of appeals for death-row inmates. Death row inmates should be given only 10 years to prove their innocence. After that, ZAP!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:25pmThis is great, now the taxpayers can babysit him until he dies. Oh, I forgot, the only punishment involved in crime here is to the taxpayers. How silly of me.
Report Post »Lather
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:17pmFree him!!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:30pmSo he can kill again?
So he can convince others that they should kill?
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:38pmIs that you Van?
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:00pmAre you advocating the legal right to commit murder? This man committed a murder, they found the weapon, the motive, and I seem to recall there being WITNESSES. He is guilty, he has been judged to be guilty repeatedly in court, and yet you have the audacity to even think he deserves to be freed! Give me one good hard piece of evidence that can prove he isn’t deserving of the sentence he received. Just one! The jury has spoken and they spoke correctly.
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:48amis that you, Mike Farrell?
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:16pmI’m familiar with this case and the people calling for his freedom sicken me. He brutally murdered a police officer and the degree of evidence puts it well beyond a reasonable. But of course for some people a prosecutor needs to prove his guilt beyond an unreasonable doubt.
Report Post »LoneStarGigger
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:16pmLooks like it’s open season on LEO in Philadelphia.
I would be surprised if many criminals caught red-handed are brought in alive in the future.
Not worth the effort of a trial, and dead men tell no tales.
Fair’s fair.
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:07pmCorruption.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:15pmhope b.HUSSAIN o.does not pardon this killer…… but can you see him doing it? i can.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:36pmI can too, especially given how Obummer’s communist buddy Van Jones has and is trying to free Abu-Jamal.
Report Post »vett
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:00pmb. Hoe-insane o. will probably ( if he has any brains ) give jamal a one way ticket to Cuba. Where he can kill some commies & it won’t be on him !
Report Post »Cold Hard Truth
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:15pmAre you freakin’ kidding me?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:13pmAnother benefit to having Eric Holder as USAG.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 5:18amThis has nothing to do with Eric Holder, it is a state issue, not a federal one. You Blazers need to get your facts straight, or did you not realize that there is a separation between state courts and federal courts?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:13pmwhere are our good guy inmates who should have put this monster out of his misery in the showers.
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:48pmHe is their hero. Pretty sure he is untouchable where he is.
Report Post »G man
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:12pmFollowing this for years. A shame. Stone cold cop killer. Disgrace.
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:17pmMaybe he‘ll get to be Blago’s cell mate so they can be friends ‘with benefits’.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:11pmSounds like the system is broke……too many attorneys and too much money will keep you alive.
Report Post »boone b
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:08pmfigures
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:07pmArian Brotherhood-
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