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NEWS & LETTERS, June - July 2008
Update on Mumia
On March 27 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Mumia Abu-Jamal a new trial and called for a jury to decide, this past May, whether he is to serve life in prison or be executed. On June 9, an order extending the due date for submitting the Petition for Rehearing was submitted by the Court of Appeals. Mr. Abu-Jamal's lead counsel Robert P. Bryan plans to file on June 27. Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal remains on death row for allegedly killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
--Elise
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