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JANUARY 2002 MUMIA ABU-JAMAL’S ATTORNEYS APPEAL TO PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT STATE JUDGE’S REFUSAL TO HEAR CONFESSION OF REAL KILLER! January 9, 2002. Attorneys for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal will file on Wednesday, January 9, 2002, an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court asking it to order Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Dembe to hear the testimony of ex-mob hit man, Arnold Beverly, about how he killed Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981, on behalf of corrupt elements in the Philadelphia Police Department and organized crime, because the officer was an obstacle to the “protection racket” corrupt officers were running in center city Philadelphia. According to Beverly’s written and videotaped confession, recently featured on NBC’s “Today Show,” Mumia Abu-Jamal had nothing to do with the shooting and did not arrive on the scene until after the officer was shot. Dembe refused to let Arnold Beverly testify, claiming that she lacked “jurisdiction” to stop the execution of an innocent man because of a previous Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in the case of Otis Peterkin which set strict time deadlines for presenting new evidence. Mumia’s attorneys will ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to overturn the Peterkin decision in the wake of the major scandal which surfaced when a Federal Judge recently reversed Peterkin’s conviction and death sentence because, not only did he not have a fair trial, there was not enough evidence to convict him in the first place. Mumia’s
attorneys will argue to the Supreme Court, as they did in legal documents
filed before Judge Dembe, that the delay in presenting Arnold Beverly’s
June 8, 1999, signed confession to the court was due solely to conflicts
of interest by his previous attorneys, Leonard Weinglass and Daniel R.
Williams, who suppressed the confession – and the lie detector test
results which prove Beverly is telling the truth – because of death
threats they received to deter them from going forward with any evidence
or legal claims that might uncover the identities of the real killers. “Although Mumia’s death sentence was recently overturned by a federal judge, and there is a mountain of evidence which proves that Arnold Beverly is telling the truth and Mumia is innocent," according to Mumia’s Chicago attorney, Marlene Kamish. “It’s outrageous that the D.A. is appealing Judge Yohn’s overturning of the death sentence and is continuing to demand the blood of an innocent man, while nothing is being done to uncover the identity of those who planned and organized the murder of Officer Faulkner,” attorney Kamish noted. FOR MORE
INFORMATION CONTACT: •
Download Legal Document, January
9, 2002:
(Filed in State Court) Transcriptions of statements/declarations: • Mumia Abu-Jamal: His description of what happened to him on the night of December 9, 1981 • Arnold Beverly: The man who has confessed to killing Faulkner. • William Cook: Mumia's brother and his account. • Terri Maurer-Carter: Court reporter who heard the original trial Judge Sabo make racist comments regarding Mumia and his trial. • Yvettte Williams has come forward saying Cynthia White, the prosecution's key witness, told her she lied in court because of police pressure (see FEB 6 Press Release ) • Linn Washington: News reporter who came on the scene. • Donald Hersing: FBI informant who exposes the police corruption in Philadelphia, including police at the scene on Dec 9, 1981. •
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