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Harvard is focusing on the Red Raiders' tailback-fullback tandem of Jamal Patterson and Daymon Smith. The two's combined average of 146 yards per game should make it a gritty contest, especially if the weather is poor as is predicted...
Convicted Philadelphia cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist active in radical black politics, obtained an indefinite stay of execution so he can pursue an appeal. Abu-Jamal, whose claims of innocence have become an international cause celebre, maintains he was railroaded by the criminal-justice system because of his politics...
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL Convicted murderer/liberal cause celebre wins stay of execution...
...obstacle. Sabo conducted the original trial and is presiding over the hearing to determine whether there will be a second trial, despite appeals that he recuse himself. Sabo holds the national record for sending the most people to death row: 31. Back in 1982, he refused to let Abu-Jamal represent himself, and appointed an attorney. The defense team cites several flaws in that attorney's performance. He assented to a jury made up of 10 whites and two blacks, hardly representative of the Philadelphia population, which was 40% black. And he failed to point out in court that...
This time, Abu-Jamal has larger sums at his disposal. A committee has raised $100,000 from the likes of actors Ed Asner and Whoopi Goldberg and academician Cornel West. That might be enough money to buy three more years' worth of appeals. No one expects Abu-Jamal...