[jpthomas]

U.S. District Judge William Yohn made his ruling on Mumia's death sentence in December 2001:

Judge throws out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence

There's a lot of info on the Mumia case and this ruling on a website dedicated to the memory of police officer Daniel Faulkner, who was fatally shot by Mumia. Here's a link:

Justice for Police Officer Daniel Faulkner

[Flightdeck]

I've always kind of been curious about this case; is this guy innocent or not?, but never got around to learning about it. So after reading this thread, I finally did the obligatory internet research, went to two pro-mumia sites: mumia.org, and freemumia.com, and danielfaulkner.com. I read pretty much everything everybody had to say on all three sites. Well, the jury was out for about two seconds:
1.) This worm is guilty as sin
2.) Liberals are a bunch of godless, stupid, ignoramuses
3.) French socialists are subhuman