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Abu Jamal Denied A New Trial

US Supreme Court Affirms Prior Ruling
By MICHAEL P. TREMOGLIE, The Bulletin
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

The United States Supreme Court yesterday rejected convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal’s petition for a new trial.

Mr. Abu Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in December 1981.

Mr. Abu Jamal’s attorneys sought to obtain a new trial for their client on the grounds that black jurors had been unfairly excluded from his trial. In March 2008, a three-judge panel of the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld Mr. Abu Jamal’s conviction and refused to order a new trial; however, it voided his death sentence. The court overturned his death sentence after it found the jury received flawed instructions during his trial’s penalty phase.

Since his conviction, there has been a campaign both in the United States and Europe to have Mr. Abu Jamal freed.

Marxist groups such as the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, which recently issued held a rally supporting the killer of four Oakland, Calif., police officers, has supported Mr. Abu Jamal, as has the Communist Workers World Party. Actor Ed Asner has been among the more famous of Mr. Abu Jamal’s supporters.

Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham expressed relief yesterday after she learned about the Supreme Court decision.

“This means that Mumia Abu Jamal’s murder conviction stands, and he lost his appeal. The Third Circuit’s opinion that he received a fair trial is affirmed,” Ms. Abraham said in a statement. “It is a pity that Maureen Faulkner had to go through the last 26 years to hear what she knew from the beginning: that Jamal murdered her husband, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, in cold blood.”

Joey Vento, owner of Geno’s Steaks, who has been at the forefront of a campaign to ensure that Mr. Abu Jamal serves his original sentence, expressed mixed emotions after hearing of the decision.

“ It’s good, but now the guy should be executed. He should have been executed before,” he said. “I’m glad that he lost his appeal, but now he will just write some more books, make more speeches and have more streets named after him.”

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking to reimpose the death penalty, and its petition asking the United States Supreme Court restore Mr. Abu Jamal’s death sentence is still pending.

Michael P. Tremoglie can be contacted at mtremoglie@thebulletin.us

Another Reason to Not Like Obama,...

HT to Captain America and his eagle-eye vision:




Take a good look at this door. Look closely at the upper left corner. Next to the Malcolm X picture. No, not that one, the OTHER one. Yeah, that one. That’s right, it’s none other than France’s favorite cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Take a guess who’s office this door belongs to? How about none other than Dr. William Ayers of Weather Underground fame. That’s right folks, Barack’s main man is STILL unrepentant about his terrorist activities and still shows contempt for law enforcement by displaying the image of a cop killer. He makes me sick. I hope every LEO reads this and gets the point that Barack Obama associates with the far left elements in politics and life. His administration will be a reflection of those associations, so be prepared. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Another Win for the Thin Blue Line!

Top court rejects Abu-Jamal appeal for new trial ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer.

The justices did not comment on their action today, which leaves in place a federal appeals court ruling that upholds Abu-Jamal's murder conviction, but orders a new sentencing hearing.

Officer Daniel Faulkner was shot to death after pulling over Abu-Jamal's brother in an overnight traffic stop.

The case has drawn worldwide attention.

Prosecutors say Faulkner, 25, managed to shoot Abu-Jamal during the confrontation. A wounded Abu-Jamal, his own gun lying nearby, was still at the scene when police arrived, and authorities consider the evidence against him overwhelming.

Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, has argued in numerous appeals that racism by the judge and prosecutors corrupted his 1982 conviction at the hands of a mostly white jury. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had appealed a federal judge's 2001 decision to grant Abu-Jamal a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions.

The Trekmedic ponders: I wonder if this will get Leftywood to stop drooling over the Obamessiah long enough to mount more useless court time?

No Liberal Bias in Our Halls of Higher Education?

As we approach the 30th anniversary of the first, fatal Philadelphia vs MOVE confrontation, comes word from the Anti-Move blog that a Drexel University professor is circulating a petition to free the murdering scum who killed P/O James Ramp in August 1978 and set the stage for an even bigger confrontation years later.


One name stuck out to me on the "Free The MOVE 9" petition, not only because of the geographical location of the signer, but because of the absolutism of his inaccurate comment.
His name is Dr. Robert Zaller and he may be teaching your kids History at Drexel University.
I find this interesting as Drexel University is very near the location where MOVE killed Officer James Ramp and nearly killed several other Police Officers and Firefighters as it is rare that anyone in Philadelphia is ignorant enough to support MOVE, but that an actual teacher of History makes the mistake to support killers is particularly notable. If that is what this man, who makes the point of being a Professor, and also name drops the University is doing online, one has to wonder what kind of teaching is going on in his class room.

And for the record, these are the comments of Dr. Zaller:


"270 years of collective punishment for the single shot that killed Officer James Ramp is surely sufficient by any yardstick of justice. No one was ever indicted, let alone punished, in the death of eleven MOVE members in 1985. I am not a member of MOVE, but a citizen seeking fairness and equity in the administration of justice. I hope that the Board of Probation and Parole will act favorably in this case, and help all Philadelphians begin a process of healing and reconciliation.
Sincerely, Dr. Robert Zaller Professor of History Drexel University"

I find the above comment repellant not just in it’s inaccuracies, but with the arrogance with which they are presented.

It is a fact that MOVE members are in prison for much more than the killing of James Ramp, something that the Professor either doesn’t know or pretends not to. And as un-important as these other ignored victims of MOVE are to people like Dr. Zaller, what is clearly important is to regurgitate MOVE’s tale of victimization while making the point that he isn’t a member of MOVE, as if that fact in and of itself is a mark of credibility.

He ends his plea for the release of un-repentant murderers on parole by arguing that in doing so there will "begin a process of healing and reconciliation" This of course, is one of those "feel good" platitudes employed by the herbivore left that echoes well through the halls of academia and allows for those inhabiting ivory towers to rest easier at night as they suffer through the delusion that everyone does indeed just want to get along.

However, Dr. Zaller fails to recognize that Philadelphians are hardly clamoring for such a process with MOVE, especially considering the fact that the MOVE members in jail remain defiantly absent of any sense of remorse or responsibility for their actions. Certainly, in terms of offensiveness, Dr. Zaller’s lack of empathy for MOVE’s victims are more egregious than those deluded children who are ready made fodder for MOVE propaganda. As a Professor, one would think that Zaller would at least feign intellectual curiosity, but it appears he has willingly abandoned his critical faculties in the name of ideology and a desire to make a political point in signing a petition in support of a reactionary, violent, and anti-intellectual, death cult that abuses the children in it’s midst.

Dr. Zaller does have a background in fighting against the death penalty, and I have no quarrel with him there, as I too, like an ever growing segment of the American populace, have an issue with murder by the state. Unlike the death penalty, where there are plenty of shades of grey, enough to keep the debate going on for years to come, the MOVE case is rather clear, that is of course, if you bother to do your homework. Dr. Zaller has failed to do his, and in doing so has made the mistake of blindly supporting the release of un-repentant cop-killers. Shame on him.
His action in support of those who killed a servant of the people of Philadelphia are a blight upon his profession and disgrace the University where he teaches.

Please send Professor Zaller an email and help educate him about the reality of MOVE.
He can be reached at robert.michael.zaller@drexel.edu and it is he who is in need of an education.

The TrekMedic adds:

The anti-Move 9 petition can be found here.

In the early days after this fracas, there was one "journalist" who supported the Move 9 in the press.

His name? Mumia Abu Jamal!

(Second link here)


Go figure,.......