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November 9, 2010

Federal Court Holds Hearing on Mumia Abu-Jamal Sentencing
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A federal court in Philadelphia is scheduled to hold a hearing today on
the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal, the imprisoned journalist
and former Black Panther. For decades, Abu-Jamal has argued that racism
by the trial judge and prosecutors led to his 1982 conviction of killing
a white police officer. Representing Abu-Jamal will be Judith Ritter, a
law professor at Widener University. Last week, Abu-Jamal’s longtime
attorney Robert Bryan stepped down.



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