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Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal's Lawyer To Top DOJ Post
Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2014 | IBD EDITOTIAL

Posted on 01/09/2014 5:30:10 PM PST by raptor22

Justice: The nominee to head the Department of Justice's civil rights division is a radical lawyer who fought to free from prison a cold-blooded killer of a Philadelphia cop.

On Dec. 9, 1981, Officer Danny Faulkner, 12 days from his 26th birthday, observed a car going the wrong way down a one-way street without its lights on.

He pulled over the vehicle, and the driver, one William Cook, got out of the car and began wrestling with Faulkner.

Moments later, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cook's brother (aka Wesley Cook), showed up at the scene with a .38-caliber handgun and opened fire, hitting Faulkner, eyewitnesses said, in the back.

Faulkner returned fire, wounding his assailant, who got off several more shots, including the one that hit Faulkner in the face at point-blank range, killing him.

Police found Faulkner fatally wounded and Abu-Jamal with a bullet wound in his chest and his .38-caliber handgun and five spent shell casings. Four eyewitnesses testified at his trial. A jury sentenced him to death.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1995, and in 1998 it refused to grant his request for a new trial. In 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Abu-Jamal's appeal.

In December 2001, a federal judge overturned his death sentence but upheld his conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a second appeal in 2010.

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KEYWORDS: adegbile; blackpanthers; civilrightsdivision; copkiller; danielfaulkner; doj; goj; mumiaabujamal
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To: raptor22

How could any attorney with self-respect defend a cop killer?

And how can we have an attorney who had defended the guilty in a position of power in our government?


21 posted on 01/09/2014 6:09:59 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: raptor22

That piece of filth needs a short dance at the end of a long rope.


22 posted on 01/09/2014 6:10:41 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: raptor22

This is a finger in the eye by the black racists running the White House.

This attorney will use this position to attack non-blacks.


23 posted on 01/09/2014 6:14:43 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office)
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To: Oliviaforever

David Yeagley at BadEagle.com has written on the extremely bad idea of minorities ever “ruling” the majority (if the minority is Black, of course); it’s frightening. This is the most distressing story I’ve read in weeks. We are doomed; it’s payback for Whitey time, BIG TIME.


24 posted on 01/09/2014 6:19:50 PM PST by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
maybe hes dating the guy?

mumia ..in fact .looks like his type.... come to think of it

LOVE the combover


25 posted on 01/09/2014 6:19:58 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( a Safe..and Sane....2014 To All!)
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26 posted on 01/09/2014 6:23:31 PM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Oliviaforever
And how can we have an attorney who had defended the guilty in a position of power in our government?

That would be virtually every attorney in the country.
27 posted on 01/09/2014 6:23:59 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: raptor22
This is what lawyers are paid to do.

Do any of you know that John Adams represented the British soldiers that were involved in the Boston Massacre? Did you know that he won acquittal for them?

Should all reference to him as one of the founding fathers be stricken?

This obama appointee may be a POS, but hitting him for defending a client is the wrong way do go about defeating his nomination.

28 posted on 01/09/2014 6:24:08 PM PST by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Why Obama would appoint the lawyer for this killer to a top position is beyond me.”

Is it really? You really don’t know by now?


29 posted on 01/09/2014 6:45:09 PM PST by slouper
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To: metalurgist

He did not defend him at trial. He gained fame by trying to overturn the conviction after several appeals.


30 posted on 01/09/2014 6:58:44 PM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: raptor22
Just wait till 2017 when O'bama lets this turd out of prison to relieve his suffering.

Ed

31 posted on 01/09/2014 7:01:03 PM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: cripplecreek

Mumia will be appointed head of the National Endowment for the Humanities.


32 posted on 01/09/2014 8:01:27 PM PST by Argus
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To: raptor22

This lawyer never wanted to free Mummia, too big of a pimp cause to milk.

People are stupid.

Of course the message is clear from Obama: whatever is wrong, Bush and white people’s fault.


33 posted on 01/10/2014 7:53:20 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: raptor22

It seems that the Obama Administration’s Holder DOJ does not look like America.


34 posted on 01/10/2014 11:30:13 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
There's a better article about this at post #6.

I heard Glenn Beck talking about this yesterday, and it really is horrifying.

35 posted on 01/10/2014 11:34:30 AM PST by lonevoice (We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality)
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