In the week of the Republican National Convention, three major media attacks on Mumia appeared. This Memorandum addresses the threshold issue regarding the legal viability of Jamal's previously-filed Petition. These are grouped into six categories. The attached document demonstrates at best a complete lack of knowledge, and at worst a deliberate attempt to mis-represent the truth in the case. People do not believe the lie that two cops forgot a confession for two months.
Every generation has a moral assignment.
First, this case has come to concentrate a major political struggle in society over the whole reactionary agenda emphasizing police powers and speeded-up executions. Second, the courts have many different options in fixing the outcome at each stage.