Daily News | Convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal pursues one more appeal. He is facing a skeptical judge.
Forty-one years and one week after Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was shot to death, the latest defense team for his convicted killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, sought Friday to convince a skeptical judge to overturn his life sentence.
Prosecutors say the defense has imposed a falsely sinister reading of benign material. And Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemens strongly signaled in a 30-page opinion last fall that she is leaning toward dismissing the defense appeal. At the time of the murder, Abu-Jamal was driving a taxi after losing his job as a journalist with public radio in Philadelphia after he became fascinated by the counter-culture group MOVE. He encountered Faulkner at 4 a.m. after noticing that the officer had pulled over his younger brother in a car stop at 13th and Locust Streets.
She said this was evidence Chobert was to be paid for his testimony. But Assistant District Attorney Grady Gervino told the court the letter was no evidence of any such deal. The original prosecutor, Joseph McGill, has said in a sworn statement that Chobert was merely asking about money for lost wages for the days he was on the stand.
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