NOVEMBER 2001 November 21, 2001 Much New Evidence of Mumia's innocence has surfaced in recent months including a confession by Arnold Beverly and multiple affidavits to support it. Nevertheless, State Court Judge Dembe ruled against Mumia and refused to hear this new evidence on November 21. This will be appealed. Philadelphia Federal Court Judge Yohn's decision is pending on whether or not to grant an evidentiary hearing. • See the document filed in state court that she denied: Download PCRA 2001 & Read! (condensed and reformatted to 68 pages, pdf file, opens with Acrobat Reader Software 473k) To see the petition in html (this 300 page document is worth the read and is broken up into 18 parts) go to www.mumia.org and click on "legal" then look for PCRA parts. November 5, 2001 MUMIA ABU-JAMAL’S ATTORNEYS, COMPARING HIS CASE TO THAT OF SACCO AND VANZETTI CASE IN THE 1920's, URGE FEDERAL JUDGE YOHN TO “ENSURE THAT HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF ... WITH AN INNOCENT MAN BEING EXECUTED WHILE THE CONFESSION OF THE REAL MURDERER IS IGNORED.” Mumia Abu-Jamal’s attorneys, on November 2, 2001, filed with U.S. District Judge Yohn in Philadelphia an Atlantic Monthly article by one of America’s greatest and most respected jurists, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, which exposed the “grave miscarriage of justice” in the Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920's when two innocent Italian immigrants were executed in an atmosphere of anti-immigrant prejudice, after a state court judge refused to grant a new trial despite the fact that the real murderer confessed and exonerated the two men of any involvement in the crime. Pointing to the “direct and chilling historical parallel” between the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the Jamal case, Mumia’s attorneys urge Judge Yohn to “ensure that history does not repeat itself in this case with an innocent man being executed while the confession of the real murderer is ignored.” Recently, Judge Yohn denied Jamal’s motion to reconsider the court’s refusal to authorize Jamal’s attorneys to take the deposition of Arnold Beverly, the self-confessed killer of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Beverly’s signed and videotaped confession exonerates Mumia and accuses corrupt Philadelphia police officials and organized crime of having organized and planned the murder of Faulkner and hired Beverly and an accomplice to carry it out. Mumia’s attorneys pointedly compare the “fry the n****r” remark by Mumia’s trial judge, Alfred Sabo, overheard by Court Reporter Terri Maurer-Carter, to the Sacco-Vanzetti judge’s “xenophobic prejudice” against Italian immigrants and “undisguised distaste for their political beliefs.” Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian Anarchists. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a radical Black political activist. Arguing that Justice Frankfurter’s description of the court decision in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as a “farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions, and mutilations” is equally applicable to Judge Sabo’s decision denying post-conviction relief to Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia’s attorneys blast Sabo’s opinion as the product of a judge who “did not and could not provide Mr. Jamal with anything even remotely resembling a fair hearing.” Mumia Abu-Jamal is represented by British Barrister Nick Brown, attorney Marlene Kamish from Chicago, attorney Eliot Lee Grossman from Los Angeles, and Philadelphia attorney J. Michael Farrell. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: (626) 943-1945 or (412) 264-6686 Download Justice Frankfurter’s article on the Sacco-Vanzetti case from http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/frankff.htm See Arnold Beverly’s videotaped confession at http://www.kntv.com or order copies from the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal by contacting howardkeylor@home.com. • PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE MARCH 1927 ARTICLE BY JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER ON SACCO-VANZETTI CASE. • Download Legal Document, November 2, 2001: (Filed in Federal Court) PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE MARCH 1927 ARTICLE BY JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER ON SACCO-VANZETTI CASE (pdf 133k) • Link to Atlantic Monthly article • Affidavit of Terri Maurer-Carter

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Brochure: includes declarations of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Arnold Beverly, Terri-Maurer-Carter, Yvette Williams, William Cook, and short update as of Feb 2002

• OVERVIEW OF AFFIDAVITS