Summary of events and legal happenings on Friday, December 16, 2022. By Betsey Piette, December 16, 2022, Reprinted from Workers.org. Dec. 16 — Supporters and family of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filled the courtroom and demonstrated outside the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center today. All were asking whether Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Lucretia …
Mumia’s attorneys response to the court’s refusal to consider evidence hidden by the prosecution
Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas repeatedly used procedural rules (like the time-bar) — rather than allowing for an examination of the new evidence — in her 31-page decision dismissing Mumia Abu-Jamal’s petition for a new trial on Oct. 26, 2022. Judge Clemons’s decision rewards the Prosecution for hiding evidence showing …
Mumia’s Next Court Date is Fri., Dec. 16th
On October 26, 2022, Mumia Abu-Jamal had a court date to determine if he would be permitted to present boxes of recently uncovered information hidden by the prosecution from his original trial. At this court date, Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons denied Mumia his constitutional right to present this information. We are sponsoring a …
Mumia Supporters Attend Hearing
Joe Piette, March 2, 2022. About 3 dozen supporters of unjustly imprisoned journalist and community activist Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered outside Philadelphia Common Pleas Court on March 2, 2022, after a court hearing on his appeals. Judge Lecretia Clemons postponed the hearing at the request of the prosecutor’s office for 120 days, June 29. The Love …