Bring Mumia Home

Our Exonerated

We love Philadelphia and agonize how many of our Native Sons (Black men) are framed up by ambitious District Attorneys, racist police, and compromised judges. The newest Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) and its detailed review of suspicious cases have, so far, exonerated 29 innocent men. All Black. All were framed for murder. Read their stories.

All defendants exonerated by the Conviction Integrity Unit, except one, were initially convicted in the 1990s and in the 2000s. It’s time to open up the cases that were litigated in the darkest, the most racist period in the history of Philadelphia’s criminal punishment system.

 

The new evidence that emerged again in the last number of months, filed by Mumia’s defense attorneys on Feb 22, proves further that Mumia was framed in 1982 by the DA’s office and that the subsequent DA’s continued to cover up the wrongful conviction. The whole point of the Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) is to throw out corrupt, wrongful convictions and set free the wrongfully convicted prisoner. Larry Krasner’s office has exonerated 29 people since he took office. Let Mumia be number 30.