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April 18, 2019

Philadelphia DA Clears Path for Mumia Abu-Jamal to Appeal Murder Conviction
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Wednesday his office
would no longer oppose a bid by imprisoned former Black Panther Mumia
Abu-Jamal to reargue his case. The move paves the way for Abu-Jamal to
get a new hearing to appeal his 1981 conviction for the murder of
Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an
award-winning journalist who spent nearly three decades on death row; he
remains in a Pennsylvania prison serving a sentence of life without
parole.


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