Mumia's innocence....

[RadioRaheem84]

Google the words "free Mumia Abu-Jamal" and you'll find a long list of websites that howl at his incarceration. It's like if Interpol threw Conan O'Brien in jail for making fun of the Pope. The story goes that in 1981, Abu-Jamal was arrested for shooting Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal) while he was issuing a traffic citation to Abu-Jamal's brother. He was convicted and sentenced to death. Since that time, everybody from Paul Newman to the European Parliament has lobbied, in one way or another, for his release.For instance, accroding to the "Free Mumia" conspiracy theory, a .44-caliber bullet was removed from Faulkner's body but Abu-Jamal had a .38.


However, according to the ballistics expert hired by Mumia's own attorney, the bullet fragments pulled from Faulkner's body were a ballistics match to a gun registered to Abu-Jamal. A gun which, it should be pointed out, was found next to Abu-Jamal at the crime scene along with five empty casings. There's also the matter of the four witnesses who were at the scene of the crime who all implicated Abu-Jamal as firing the fatal shot. There's also the fact that, in almost 30 years, his story has changed numerous times, including the recent claim that it was, get this, a mysterious mafia hit man (http://www.danielfaulkner.com/newsarticles/others/hesguilty/hesguilty.html) who killed Faulkner because he was a dirty cop. Faulkner's widow, who was spat on and screamed at during the trial, must especially love that theory.




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Of course the article is written by a right winger. Is this true?

[chimx]

I remember when i was young and angsty i emailed the Philly PD and rattled off about how much they sucked and how dumb they were because of the .44/.38 thing. there response was that there was a lot of misinformation floating around the interwebs and that i should study the issue more thoroughly before making a decision.

unfortunately i'm pretty lazy, but I wouldn't take the free mumia website as definitive proof of his innocence. probably better to look at the court records yourself.

[A Marxist Historian]

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Of course the article is written by a right winger. Is this true?

It's a lot of crap. The bullet caliber story is complex, and may have been oversimplified a bit back in the '90s when Leonard Weinstein was his attorney. So the right wingers have leaped on that, as it's just about the only one of the zillion different holes that have been torn in the prosecution's case that is even arguable. By now, almost every prosecution witness that is still alive has repudiated their testimony that Mumia was the shooter, usually openly stating that they were pressured by the Philly cops to lie.

As for Mumia allegedly changing his story, that is hilarious. They used to denounce him for not telling his story, which he did on fired attorney Weinstein's orders. So now that he's out from under Weinstein and can tell his story, they accuse him of changing it.

And it's hard to call Arnold Beverly "mysterious" when he's made a videotaped legal deposition confessing that he did it, which is widely available. I've seen it. But the right wing Mumia haters think they can get away with saying anything, as Mumia and his defenders are shut out of the mainstream media.

-M.H.-

[RadioRaheem84]

Any sites that are actually credible that you can recommend?

[brigadista]

RR if you go on freemumia.com you can read statements and search the archive

re the ballistics

try
http://www.iacenter.org/polprisoners/maj_gunlegal.htm

and court docs at
http://www.refuseandresist.org/mumia/court.html