DIRECTORY OF THE 1998 PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT DECISION REGARDING THE APPEAL OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
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TOPIC
4
Circumstances surrounding the killing of Officer Faulkner
5
Issues raised by Mumia Abu-Jamal alleging his trial was unfair
7
Jamal's 1982 counsel was "ineffective"
8-11
Judge Albert Sabo displayed bias against Jamal
12
Why Judge Sabo presided over the PCRA hearing
12
Jamal was prevented from discovering evidence in 1982
14-18
Officer Gary Wakschul and Jamal's hospital confession
20-21
Robert Chobert
22-24
Cynthia White
23-29
Veronica Jones
29-31
Desie Hightower
31-35
William Singletary
35-36
Debra Kordansky
36-38
Arnold Howard
38-40
William Harmon
40-41
Sharon Smith
41-42
William Cook
42-44
Pamela Jenkins
45-46
Jamal was under FBI surveillance
46
Anthony Jackson (Jamal's 1982 attorney)
47
Jury selection process
47
Jamal was denied his right to self representation
47
Jamal's courtroom disruptions
48
Jamal's forced absence from the courtroom
50-55
Prosecutor's guilt phase summation
56-57
Prosecution's use of peremptory challenges
58-59
Judge Sabo orchestrated the removal of a black juror
60-62
Anthony Jackson's "ineffectiveness" in the penalty phase
63-67
The Prosecutor's closing argument was improper
68
Black defendants in Philadelphia are disproportionately more likely to receive death sentences