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Title: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance (Open Media Pamphlet Series) by Amnesty International ISBN: 1-58322-081-X Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Disgusting
Comment: I give it one star only because you can't give zero. It's a ridiculous account of the whole thing. I have always been interested in this case and have carefully followed it and read just about every article ever written for thepast five or six years (keeping in mind I'm only 20). The accusation that Abu-Jamal did not get a fair trial is a flat out lie. Check out the response to AI's "well researched report" at the Daniel Faulkner home page if you want to see something actually based on facts instead of attacks on people. And in case you're wondering, Daniel Faulkner is the police officer Abu- Jamal killed. It's flat out wrong that more people know the name of the murderer than the victim and it drives me crazy that no one seems to care about the police officer who was shot and killed for doing his job. Don't make his murderer a hero because he's not.
Rating: 5
Summary: Raising doubt about Mumia's trial
Comment: If you are from Philadelphia or the Philadelphia area, then you can truly understand the problems of the case of Mummia. It seems that every time you mention his name here you get into some kind of arguement. The sad thing about this is most people have absolutely no knowledge of the facts on the case of Mumia. This book, if you read it, can change that. The book attempts, and does a good job of, explaining why Amnesty International thinks that Mumia Abu Jamal recieved an unfair trial. At no time does Amnesty International say that Mumia should be set free, or that he is innocent of said charges. I will repeat this so there are no misunderstandings,AT NO TIME DOES AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAY THAT MUMIA SHOULD BE SET FREE OR THAT HE IS INNOCENT.
Now anyone should be skeptical of a book written on such a sensitive subject, but Amnesty International is a highly respected global human rights watch dog group, and I believe that their information is reliable. If you are from Philadelphia and would like to read a book on Mumia, or you are from somewhere else and just interested, this book is a good start, but not an end to informing you on this subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: Points out the gross flaws of Mumia's trial
Comment: Amnesty International in this little pamphlet presents the gross problems in the way Mumia Abu Jamal, black journalist and activist on death row since 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer, has been treated by the legal system. And there are a great many gross problems. AI does not declare him to be guilty or innocent nor have they adopted him as a prisoner of conscience.
AI points out that of the three witnesses who claimed to have heard him confess to killing officer Faulkner after being brought into the emergency room, on, officer Gary Wakshul wrote in his log after finishing his shift that night that "the negro male made no comments." Another, a hospital security gaurd, claimed to have handwritten a note to her supervisor after the incident. Another, officer Gary Bell, Faulkner's "best friend," made no record of the incident until two months later.
The security gaurd did not come forth with her claim until two months later. The alleged handwritten note was not found but a supposed typewritten copy of it was. The security gaurd denied having seen that copy before but despite its dubious authenticity Judge Sabo admitted it into evidence. Wakshull, Bell and Durham, the security gaurd, all came forward two months after the alleged confession, after Mumia had complained of being beaten by police after his arrest. Mumia tried to get Wakshul to testify but he was for some reason "on vacation" and Judge Sabo refused to pursue the matter furhter.
The alleged witnesses to the crime. AI points out that Cynthia White, the prostitute, who changed the details of her story numerous times, was serving an eighteen month sentence in Massachusetts at the time of the trial, with three charges pending, and was arrested twice in the days following the shooting, though she was not prosecuted for those two incidents. They point out that in 1987 a detective involved in Mumia's case testified successfully in support of releasing White, who was then on trial for numerous felonies, on bail despite her very extensive criminal record. They point out that Veronica Jones, the second prostitute, testified at the trial that "they [the police] told us we could work the area [as prostitutes] if we tell them [that Abu Jamal was the shooter]." She said that "they [the police] were trying to get me to say something the other girl [White] said. I couldn't do that." She said that she saw two men running from the scene but later retracted the statement, as she later testified in 1996, after being visited by police officers in jail where she was being held on charges of robbery and assault. Judge Sabo struck her original statements from the record. AI points out that Robert Chobert, the cab driver, intially told police that the shooter had "run away." He was on probation for arson at the time and was driving with a suspended liscence for which he was not prosecuted and he approached the prosecutor, as he later testified, wanting to know how he could get his liscence back so he could earn his living driving his cab. "We'll see" the prosecutor replied.
AI points out that the police did not conduct tests on Mumia's hands or smell his gun to see if had recently been fired. The medical examiner, was declared at the trial by Sabo to be a ballistics expert though at the 1995 hearing he reversed himself. The examiner made a "lay guess"--Sabo's words--that the gun was a .44 calibre whereas Mumia's gun was a .38 calibre. The medical examiner testified that though the bullet found in officer Faulkner seemed similar to those from Mumia's gun, the tests were inconclusive as to wheather it actually came from Mumia's firearm.
They point out, among other things,, him being a frequent target of law enforcment, especially the FBI's COINTELPRO program and how the prosecutor exploited Mumia's political views to secure a death sentence from the jury.
I think he's probably innocent. Give him a new trial or release him immediately.
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Title: Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal ISBN: 0380727668 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan, Alice Walker ISBN: 1583220763 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Death Blossoms : Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience by Mumia Abu-Jamal ISBN: 0896086992 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Executing Justice : An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Daniel R. Williams, E. L. Doctorow ISBN: 0312283172 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 20 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson, Jean Genet, Jonathan Jackson ISBN: 1556522304 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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