Philly Judge Blows Off Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Latest Appeal

A Philadelphia lower state court jurist, Court of Common Pleas Judge Lucretia J. Clemons, has summarily rejected completely the latest and perhaps most dramatic legal challenge by Pennsylvania’s most well-known prison captive, Mumia Abu-Jamal of his 1982 conviction on a charge of murdering a white police officer. Abu-Jamal, charged as Wesley Cook for the Dec. […]

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