Murdered by Mumia
Subtitle: a life sentence of loss, pain, and injustice
By: Maureen Faulkner and Michael A. Smerconish.
Contributors: Smerconish, Michael A.
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781599213767
Subjects: Faulkner, Daniel J., -- 1955-1981; Abu-Jamal, Mumia; Police murders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Case studies; Murderers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Case studies; Death row inmates -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Description: Maureen Faulkner and acclaimed talk show host / journalist Michael Smerconish lay out the case against Abu-Jamal, and those who've elevated him to the status of political prisoner. Smerconish, a lawyer, has provided pro bono legal counsel to Faulkner for over a decade and knows both the legal intricacies and personal subtleties of the case like no other person.  He's personally acquainted himself with the more than five thousand pages of trial transcript.  "My reading starkly revealed that Abu-Jamal murdered Danny Faulkner in cold blood and that the case tried in Philadelphia in 1982 bore no resemblance to the one being home-cooked by the Abu-Jamal defense team."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: The premonition; title: The knock; title: With his boots on; title: Facts; title: Spin; title: The trial; title: Danny and me; title: Time to rebuild; title: The Yale Law Journal; title: Radio waves; title: Harrisburg; title: Tom Snyder; title: Murderers manuscript; title: Washington; title: California dreamin; title: Paul; title: Tom Ridge; title: Hollywood and the New York Times; title: The 1995 PCRA Hearing; title: American Lawyer Magazine; title: The Bruderhof; title: HBO; title: The 1996 PCRA Hearing; title: Temple Radio; title: Santa Cruz; title: The 1997 PCRA Hearing; title: A San Francisco treat; title: KGO-TV; title: The New York Times ad for Danny; title: Hollywood's unlikely hero; title: The Oakland teach-in; title: Rage against the machine; title: Mumia money; title: Philip Bloch; title: Amor patriae ducit; title: Hog wild; title: Back to school; title: Cheesesteaks and Joey Vento; title: Berkeley book burning; title: Gerald Nicosia; title: Judge Yohn's decision; title: The French; title: The Oreilly Factor; title: Tookie and the Terminator; title: Twenty-fifth anniversary : gone but never forgotten.