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> NEW LAWYERS FILE AFFIDAVITS: "MUMIA DIDN'T DO IT"
>
> By Berta Joubert-Ceci
> Philadelphia
>
> In a dramatic development, the new legal team representing
> Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed three affidavits that deal
> directly with what happened in Philadelphia on the night of
> Dec. 9, 1981, when the African American journalist was shot
> and Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was killed.
>
> Marlene Kamish of Chicago and Eliot Lee Grossman of Los
> Angeles held a news conference in front of the Federal
> Building here May 4 after filing a written notice of
> appearance in U.S. District Court. They are now representing
> the internationally known Black journalist, together with
> British Barrister Nicholas R.D. Brown and Philadelphia
> attorney J. Michael Farrell.
>
> They had also filed the affidavits--from Abu-Jamal himself,
> from his brother William Cook, and from a third person named
> Arnold Beverly--as new evidence to support both a habeas
> corpus petition and a request for an evidentiary hearing.
>
> Attorney Kamish said at the press conference, "Mumia Abu-
> Jamal has been in prison for 20 years. He's been on death
> row isolated from family, from friends, from loved ones. All
> that time he has maintained his innocence.
>
> "He is innocent. And today we have filed in the court here a
> sworn document by Arnold Beverly stating that he in fact is
> the one who shot Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981, fully
> vindicating Mumia Abu-Jamal. We have also filed a sworn
> statement by his brother, William Cook, about his
> recollection of the events of that night."
>
> Kamish read a part of the new affidavit from Abu-Jamal that
> says: "I, Mumia Abu-Jamal, declare: I am the Petitioner in
> this action. If called as a witness I could and would
> testify to the following from my own personal knowledge: I
> did not shoot Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. I had nothing
> to do with the killing of Officer Faulkner. I am innocent.
>
> "At my trial I was denied the right to defend myself. I had
> no confidence in my court-appointed attorney, who never even
> asked me what happened the night I was shot and the police
> officer was killed; and I was excluded from at least half
> the trial....
>
> "Now for the first time I have been given an opportunity to
> tell what happened to me in the early morning hours of Dec.
> 9, 1981. This is what happened."
>
> After describing the events that night, Abu-Jamal's
> statement ends: "I never confessed to anything because I had
> nothing to confess to. I never said I shot the policeman. I
> did not shoot the policeman. I never said I hoped he died. I
> would never say something like that."
>
> William Cook's statement says: "Mumia was not holding a gun.
> Mumia never intervened in anything between me and the cop. I
> had nothing to do with the shooting or killing of the police
> officer. My brother Mumia Abu-Jamal had nothing to do with
> shooting or killing the policeman."
>
> About Beverly, lawyer Grossman said: "The person who
> actually shot Daniel Faulkner has come forward saying in a
> sworn affidavit that he was hired to kill the police officer
> because the police officer was interfering with the
> corruption among the police and organized crime in Center
> City in the 1980s.
>
> "We have interviewed this witness ourselves," said Grossman,
> "and we feel satisfied that the affidavit is credible and we
> believe our obligation is to come forward.
>
> "Basically, Mumia was at the wrong place at the wrong time
> when a hit was in progress against the police officer, who
> was interfering with corruption among the police in
> Philadelphia."
>
> Arnold Beverly's statement says that, "I was hired, along
> with another guy, and paid to shoot and kill Faulkner. I had
> heard that Faulkner was a problem for the mob and corrupt
> policemen because he interfered with the graft and payoffs
> made to allow illegal activity including prostitution,
> gambling, drugs without prosecution in the Center City
> area."
>
> He finishes his statement: "I left the area underground
> through the speedline system and by pre-arrangement met a
> police officer who assisted me when I exited the speedline
> underground about three blocks away. A car was waiting for
> me and I left the Center City area."
>
> posted to forum 05-10-01 Fatirah
> FREE MUMIA NOW!!
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