Mumia Gets New Sentencing Hearing, Cop Fetishists Everywhere Suffer From Exploding Heads
Now, we here at Philebrity, being of sound mind (sorta), take the agnostic view on the time-honored Mumia Abu-Jamal affair: That he most likely did it, but that there are things we do not know and in fact may never know about how the crime went down because the City of Philadelphia bungled the crime scene and trial so miserably. This being America, and the burden of proof being on the state and all, we look at it this way: Mumia should have gotten a new trial, something the anti-Mumia brigades (who, by the way, are often people who have made some dough off of being the anti-Mumia brigades) have been deathly afraid of. So the fact that Moomie’s getting a new sentencing hearing must be the shot heard ’round the world this morning for the likes of Michael Smerconish and Joey Vento and all who sail in them. (Hell, even Cop Fetish Duckie (pictured) looks pretty upset… or ecstatic, we cannot tell.) In any case, get ready for a bumpy ride, oh lovers of local media. This is going to be a hot, neck-bloating, shouty mess.
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or get a chance with a new Philadelphia jury, which would decide anew whether he should get life in prison or be sentenced – again – to death.
At the same time, the judges *upheld* his first-degree murder conviction, rejecting Abu-Jamal’s claim that he deserves an entirely new trial and a chance to prove his innocence.