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Abu-Jamal case: a story of two trials

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National Public Radio

Philadelphia's district attorney announced this morning that he will not continue to seek the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal. NPR's news blog "The Two-Way" referred readers to an earlier comment by Craig Green of Temple's Beasley School of Law who says it's a story of two trials: "One is about a very gruesome death and murder of a police officer in the line of duty, Daniel Faulkner, with very compelling and marshaled evidence against Mumia Abu-Jamal. And on the other hand, it's a trial of the system. There are allegations of police coercion and abuse, racial stacking the jury and racial application of the death penalty."