{"id":20700,"date":"2011-04-26T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=20700"},"modified":"2011-04-26T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:24:01","slug":"ap-us-court-grants-new-sentencing-for-mumia-abu-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/04\/26\/ap-us-court-grants-new-sentencing-for-mumia-abu-jamal\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: US court grants new sentencing for Mumia Abu-Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing hearing within six months or agree to a life sentence. Abu-Jamal&#8217;s first-degree murder conviction nonetheless stands in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said they were considering another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to maintain that granting this new sentencing hearing is contrary to clearly established precedent of the United States Supreme Court,&#8221; District Attorney Seth Williams said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Abu-Jamal&#8217;s lawyer, Widener University law professor Judith Ritter, did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s ruling is the latest in Abu-Jamal&#8217;s long-running legal saga.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jmujyktf0thHYzlPtCp70rXgmkzw?docId=28296761d1ef48f99e7be880ec2b718c\">Read the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}