Nathan Gorenstein at The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the Philadelphia District Attorney's reaction to the federal appeals court ruling that a jury be impaneled to reconsider whether Mumia Abu-Jamal receives a death sentence or life in prison for murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
You can read the newspaper story via the below link:
http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-26/news/29474850_1_mumia-abu-jamal-maureen-faulkner-death-penalty
You can also go to my earlier post, where you can read Michael Smerconish's interview with the jury forman from Abu-Jamal's original trial, as well as my review of Officer Faulkner's widow's book, Murdered by Mumia, and my 2003 Crime Beat column on the case, via the below link:
http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2010/11/forman-in-convicted-cop-killer-mumia.html
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