The Case Of Mumia Abu Jamal

Author : J. Patrick O'Connor
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781569763940

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The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal by J. Patrick O'Connor Pdf

Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney's Office efficiently and methodically framed him. It takes you step-by-step through what actually transpired on the night Faulkner was shot, including positioning each of the witnesses at the scene and revealing the identity of the killer. It also details the entire trial and fully covers the tortuous appeals process. The author, a seasoned crime reporter, writes in the language of hard facts, without hyperbole or exaggeration, unfounded accusation or finger-pointing, to reveal the truth about one of the most hotly debated cases of the twentieth century.

Author : Mumia Abu Jamal
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780872866553

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Writing on the Wall by Mumia Abu Jamal Pdf

Mumia Abu Jamal’s essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society.

Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583220763

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All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pdf

More than 75 essays—many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen, the only implement he is allowed in his death-row cell—embody the calm and powerful words of humanity spoken by a man on Death Row. Abu-Jamal writes on many different topics, including the ironies that abound within the U.S. prison system and the consequences of those ironies, and his own case. Mumia's composure, humor, and connection to the living world around him represents an irrefutable victory over the "corrections" system that has for two decades sought to isolate and silence him. The title, All Things Censored, refers to Mumia's hiring as an on-air columnist by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and subsequent banning from that venue under pressure from law and order groups.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Death row inmates
ISBN : 1583225064

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The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Valerie Jones
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477154373

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Veronica & The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Valerie Jones Pdf

Sometimes raw, always vivid and forthright, this is the life story of Veronica Jones, a witness in the murder trial of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. She saw two other men run from the scene of the shooting death of police officer Daniel Faulkner—she was a witness for Mumia ́s innocence. Unbeknownst to anyone but her younger sister, Veronica’s life was also entwined with Faulkner’s. Before she could testify, police detectives threatened her with 10-15 years in prison and separation from her young children if she did not falsely name Mumia as the shooter. At Mumia ́s trial she recanted her original and true witness statement and denied that she saw anyone run from the scene. This gave the prosecution evidence for conviction. In 1996 when Veronica courageously came forward to redeem herself and correct a fourteen year old lie, notorious Judge Albert Sabo, “king of death row,” and the prosecution retaliated and had her handcuffed and arrested off the witness stand! With intimidation tactics like this in an open courtroom, one can only imagine what happens behind closed doors.... This story of a courageous women also contains a Forward and Commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal and a Legal Afterword by attorney Rachel Wolkenstein on the legal significance of Veronica’s testimony.

Author : Amnesty International
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781609801823

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The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Amnesty International Pdf

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America. Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. He has steadfastly maintained his innocence. Since the trial, those advocating his release or retrial have contested the validity of much of the evidence used to obtain his conviction. These accusations have been countered by members of the law enforcement community and their supporters, who have agitated for Abu-Jamal's execution while maintaining that the trial was unbiased. Based on its review of the trial transcript and other original documents, human rights organization Amnesty International believes that the interests of justice would best be served by the granting of a new trial to Mumia Abu-Jamal. This pamplet explains why.

Author : Daniel R. Williams
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312283172

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Executing Justice by Daniel R. Williams Pdf

Mumia Abu-Jamal's defense attorney provides an account of his client's struggle for justice as he describes the 1982 conviction of the award-winning journalist for the killing of a police officer.

Author : John Hayden
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595384747

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Mumia Abu Jamal by John Hayden Pdf

From the knowledgeable perspective of 25 years as a criminal lawyer (mostly appeals like murder, rape, robbery, etc.), a former co-editor of Gilbert's Criminal Law & Procedure, and a free lance writer for over a decade, the author writes incisively about the remorseless cop killer described by America's newspaper of record as: "Perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world." (Page 1, New York Times, Dec. 19, 2001, the day after a federal court nullified a racially mixed jury's July 3, 1982 unanimous sentence of death.) Mumia Abu Jamal - The Patron Saint of American Cop Killers exposes the Hollywood backed "Free Mumia! Free All Political Prisoners!" movement's claims of "racism" in jury selection, "police frame-up," and "police intimidation of defense witnesses" as a transparent fraud. With the same precision and insight he devoted to a three part article in the East Hampton Independent (and the Southampton Independent) on the tragic carbon monoxide death of his friend, tennis star, and CBS TV commentator, Vitas Gerulaitis, Hayden takes the reader through the pre-trial, trial, and absurdly lengthy post conviction proceedings. Now that the chances of the cop hating ex Black Panther ever being executed for killing a 25 year old cop are about the same as his chances of ever being found "innocent," Hayden predicts that the middle aged Death-Row prisoner will, like Dr. Martin Luther King's cowardly assassin, racist James Earl Ray, die of old age in a 6 X 9 steel cage in a super max prison somewhere in rural America.

Author : Mumia Abu-jamal
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034248255

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Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-jamal Pdf

Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries from NPR--an unflinching account of the brutalities, humiliations and actrocities of prison life. Articulate and compelling, the work is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding capital punishment and freedom of speech.

Author : David P. Lindorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015056286167

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Killing Time by David P. Lindorff Pdf

In the first independent book on the case, which arrives at conclusions not by conviction but by reportage, investigative reporter Dave Lindorff offers explosive new evidence about the prosecution, the defense and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Consider: The evidence being kept hidden from the public-by both the defense and the prosecution. New evidence to show presiding Judge Sabo had made up his mind about the case-and the punishment-before the trial's end. The extent of police corruption-not just in Philadelphia, but of a third of those working directly on the case. The disastrous missteps of Abu-Jamal's appellate lawyers and the secret flaws of his new defense team. The struggle over Abu-Jamal's new line of defense arguing that a hit man may have been involved. New evidence about the blurted out confession Abu-Jamal is alleged to have uttered. What Judge Yohn, who set aside the death sentence, missed entirely. And the missing evidence that reveals the presence of another participant at the shooting scene. A compelling page-turner by an investigator who never stops digging. Wherever you started on this famous case, Lindorff will leave you with an entirely new perspective.

Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896087182

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We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pdf

In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality and celebrating a people's unending quest for freedom. In We Want Freedom, Mumia combines personal experience with extensive research to provide a compelling history of the Black Panther Party--what it was, where it came from, and what rose from its ashes. Mumia also pays special attention to the U.S. government's disruption of the organization through COINTELPRO and similar operations. While Abu-Jamal is a prolific writer and probably the world's most famous political prisoner, this book is unlike any of Mumia's previous works. In We Want Freedom, Abu-Jamal applies his sharp critical faculties to an examination of one of the U.S.'s most revolutionary and most misrepresented groups. A subject previously explored by various historians and forever ripe for "insider" accounts, the Black Panther Party has not yet been addressed by a writer with the well-earned international acclaim of Abu-Jamal, nor with his unique combination of a powerful, even poetic, voice and an unsparing critical gaze. Abu-Jamal is able to make his own Black Panther Party days come alive as well as help situate the organization within its historical context, a context that included both great revolutionary fervor and hope, and great repression. In this era, when the US PATRIOT Act dismantles some of the same rights and freedoms violated by the FBI in their attack on the Black Panther Party, the story of how the Party grew and matured while combating such invasions is a welcome and essential lesson.

Author : Maureen Faulkner,Michael Smerconish
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780762799022

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Murdered by Mumia by Maureen Faulkner,Michael Smerconish Pdf

New and updated in paperback! Maureen Faulkner is the widow of police officer Danny Faulkner, infamously murdered in Philadelphia in 1981 by Wesley Cook, who goes by the name of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Although Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982, in May of 2007 his attorneys appealed his sentence once more (the federal appeals court has not yet ruled). The defendant has become an international cult figure, who has been supported by such Hollywood activists as Ed Asner, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon. Faulkner and radio-host Smerconish tell the other side of the story: the widow's anguish and grief and her attempts to bring closure to her husband's murder more than 25 years later. Smerconish (who is also a lawyer) has studied the 5,000 pages of trial transcripts (transcripts Asner readily admits he has never looked at), and outlines and analyzes the issues and evidence. The case is compelling, and the reader comes away convinced – as is Smerconish – that Abu-Jamal is guilty as charged. It is a latter-day In Cold Blood.

Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : LAW
ISBN : 0872867382

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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pdf

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives Matter.

Author : Safiya Bukhari
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558616547

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The War Before by Safiya Bukhari Pdf

An inspiring memoir from a legendary activist and political prisoner that “reminds us of the sheer joy that comes from resisting civic wrongs” (Truthout). In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene in defense of the Panther’s First Amendment right; she ended up handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car. The War Before traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these writings provide an intimate view of a woman wrestling with the issues of her time—the troubled legacy of the Panthers, misogyny in the movement, her decision to convert to Islam, the incarceration of outspoken radicals, and the families left behind. Her account unfolds with immediacy and passion, showing how the struggles of social justice movements of the past have paved the way for the progress—and continued struggle—of today. With a preface by Bukhari’s daughter, Wonda Jones, a forward by Angela Y. Davis, and edited by Laura Whitehorn, The War Before is a riveting look at the making of an activist and the legacy she left behind.

Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896086992

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Death Blossoms by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pdf

The author, a prisoner on death-row for killing a police officer, presents a series of essays and reflections on his life and his spirituality.