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by Lead attorney Robert R. Bryan | 10.23.2008

Mumia is appealing the US Third Circuit Court decision denying a new guilt-phase trial or a preliminary hearing that could have led to a new guilt phase trial. The Supreme Court granted his request for a 60-day extension, so he will have to submit his petition by Dec. 19, 2008.

The Philadelphia DA is appealing the Third Circuit Court’s affirmation of US District Court Judge William Yohn’s 2001 decision, which ‘overturned’ the death penalty and stated that if the DA wants to re-impose the death sentence, they must hold a new penalty-phase jury trial where new evidence of Mumia’s innocence can be presented, BUT, the jury can only decide between a sentence of life without chance of parole or execution. The DA will submit their petition by Nov. 19, 2008.

Legal Update

by whoisleonardpeltier.info | 10.17.2008

Leonard is once again being uprooted and relocated to another prison. Although this seems to be a strategy by the federal government to disrupt his defense committee, we can take advantage of the limbo Leonard is in right now by demanding that the Bureau of Prisons transfer him to a facility closer to his home reservation. Turtle Mountain is requesting that Leonard be transferred to the reservation's custody, and in the meantime there are federal facilities in Sandstone, Minnesota and Oxford, Wisconsin which could accommodate him.

Urgent  Write to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on behalf of Leonard Peltier regarding his transfer

October 16, 2008

by Reporters Without Borders | 10.15.2008

Reporters Without Borders is asking for the judge to show clemency for journalist Jason Nicholas, independent photographer for the New York Post, currently in jail in Rikers Island, NY for parole violation. Jason Nicholas is scheduled for another parole hearing in front of an administrative judge on October 15th.

by HansBennett | 10.15.2008

Take Action for Troy Davis here: www.amnestyusa.org/troydavis

This is from Amnesty International

by www.thejerichomovement.com | 10.14.2008

Many photos from this weekend's Jericho events in NYC, and Mumia's message.


Jericho -- at 10
by Evelyn A. Williams | 10.09.2008

As a member of Assata’s New Jersey trial legal defense team, and her appeal lawyer, I think a correct statement of the circumstances of New Jersey Trooper Werner Foerster’s death as established by exhibits, trial testimony and forensic evidence and that conclusively repudiate the revisionist lies now being advanced by the State of New Jersey as “fact”, need to be repeated.

by HansBennett | 10.07.2008

On Monday, Oct.6, in a ruling unrelated to death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal's upcoming appeal of the recent Third Circuit decision denying a new guilt-phase trial, the US Supreme Court rejected his Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) appeal, which was asking the courts to hear newly discovered testimony from Kenneth Pate and Yvette Williams.

With this ruling, Abu-Jamal's upcoming appeal to the US Supreme Court of the Third Circuit decision (the filing of this appeal is due by Oct. 20 unless a 60 day extension is requested) is now more important than ever, because this is now his last chance for a new guilt-phase trial. This moment coincides with two new media projects that expose further injustice: the British film In Prison My Whole Life and the book The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, by J. Patrick O'Connor.

SEE ALSO: Dec. 6 International Day of Action II Portland Radio Spotlights Journalists for Mumia II New info flyers just completed: 1) A condensed legal update based on this article, and 2) A flyer summarizing the key points from The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Illustration by Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany

Mumia Abu-Jamal Faces US Supreme Court as New Book and Film Expose Injustice

By Hans Bennett

(Abu-Jamal-News.com)

by Hans Bennett | 10.06.2008

The US Supreme Court has rejected Mumia's PCRA appeal based on the affidavits of Kenneth Pate and Yvette Williams. The appeal had been filed in July, after it was rejected by the PA Supreme Court in Feb, 2008, and in 2005 by Philadelphia judge Pamela Dembe.

This is completely separate from the appeal to the US Supreme Court re. the recent Third Circuit decision that denied a new guilt phase trial. The deadline for Mumia and the DA to appeal this to the US Supreme Court is October 20, unless Mumia's lawyer applies for a 60 day extension.


AFP news service just announced that the US Supreme Court has rejected Mumia’s PCRA appeal based on the affidavits of Kenneth Pate and Yvett

by Human Rights Coalition | 10.04.2008

In the last four months over a dozen prisoners confined in the Special Management Unit (SMU) at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Camp Hill have written HRC/Fed Up! about conditions of severe brutality, white supremacy, and the systematic sabotage at all inmate efforts to file grievances and/or obtain legal assistance. See the attached 14-page document (HERE) culled from prisoner reports detailing a violent program of dehumanization.

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Urge

by Troy Davis' sister, Martina Correia | 10.02.2008

Note from Martina:

One thing we need to keep is the Media in this story so please to everyone please post comments to CNN.com, CBS.com and make comments on the Troy Davis stories and email other national, state and local media where you live and tell them we want to know more about the Troy Anthony Davis case. One element I have noticed missing in all the , media outlets is that no one mentions that the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act is involved, and that is why Troy's case has got to this point. So we want to encourage the media to talk about law and how it does not protect the innocent by limiting the appeals process. If the media knows we want to know more they will do more stories on this case. So get you emails going to all national media. Continue to write op-eds, this is a case of innocence not just the death penalty, eyewitness identification, witness recantation and procedures of law.

Thanks

Martina Correia.


Silencing our Joy

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