Legal Opinion
Abu-Jamal v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 27, 2008No. 01-9014, 02-9001PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Chief Judge.
This petition for collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 came to us more than two decades after trial. In 1982, Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death in a Pennsylvania court for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Following denial of his appeals in state court, Abu-Jamal filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court. The District Court vacated his death sentence and granted a new penalty hearing, but denied all other relief, affirming the judgment of conviction. The Commonwealth of…
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