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Mouvement
pour la liberation de Mumia Abu Jamal
Evènement majeur le 17 janvier 2006
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décembre 2005 nous apprenons que la Cour accepte de prendre
en considération des élements majeurs du point de vue
de la Constitution américaine pour que Mumia puisse avoir un
procès juste; car les droits constitutionnels de Mumia ont
jusqu'à présent été systématiquement
et massivement bafoués, entre le racisme dans la sélection
des jurés et l'attitude du calamiteux Juge Sabo, et le fait
que celui-ci influence le jury en lui indiquant que s'il condamne
à mort Mumia celui-ci aura de toute façon la possibilité
de faire appel.(voir ci-dessous le courrier de son principal avocat
Robert Bryan) |
Document
Juridique (pdf) - decembre 2005
Sent: Tuesday,
December 06, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: Mumia Abu-Jamal - Decision, U.S. Court of Appeals [PLEASE CIRCULATE]
Dear Friends and Supporters:
Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued
the most important decision affecting my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, since
the lower federal court ruling in December 2001. An order was issued this
morning that the court will accept for review the following issues, all
of which are of enormous constitutional significance and go to the very
essence of Mumia's right to a fair trial due process of law, and equal
protection of the law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
to the U.S. Constitution:
Claim 14: Whether appellant was denied his constitutional rights
due to the prosecution’s trial summation.
Claim 16: Whether the Commonwealth’s use of peremptory challenges
at trial violated appellant’s constitutional rights under Batson
v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986).
Claim 29: Whether appellant was denied due process during post-conviction
proceedings as a result of alleged judicial bias.
Claim
16 concerns the prosecutorial use of racism in jury selection. The
record establishes beyond question that racism is a major thread that
has run through this case since Mumia's 1981 arrest, and continues to
today. Claim 14 relates to the guilt phase. It includes the prosecutor's
argument that if convicted Mumia would have "appeal after appeal."
That comment effectively lessened the burden of the jurors, and turned
the concept of reasonable doubt and presumption of innocence on its head.
Claim 29 is about the bias and incredible racism of Judge Albert
Sabo, the trial judge. Unfortunately, it is limited to his conduct at
the 1995 evidentiary (PCRA) hearing, rather than his monstrous behavior
at trial. This restriction is because all of the prior attorneys mistakenly
did not attack Sabo's misconduct at trial, an unfortunate oversight and
mistake
The court has also issued a briefing schedule. The case is now on the
fast track, as I have been predicting. The opening briefs are due to be
filed by January 17, 2006.
Please post this e-mail and the attached Order on your web sites, and
circulate it.
Today we achieved a great victory in the campaign to win a new trial and
the eventual freedom of Mumia.
Your support, and activism, is badly needed and appreciated.
With best wishes,
Robert R.
Bryan
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Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, California 94123
Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal
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