Mumia Abu-Jamal loses latest appeal for new trial‏

international | crime and justice | other press Wednesday July 23, 2008 15:02 by Darren C - Free Mumia Ireland

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Abu-Jamal loses latest appeal for new trial
By Emilie Lounsberry
Inquirer Staff Writer

A federal appeals court yesterday refused to reconsider the decision denying a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal in the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.

In a two-page decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Abu-Jamal's request for a rehearing of his appeal in the controversial case, which has helped fuel an international debate about the death penalty.

Abu-Jamal's lawyer, Robert R. Bryan of San Francisco, said he planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case.

In March, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit left intact Abu-Jamal's conviction but said a new jury should decide whether he deserved death or should be sentenced to life behind bars.