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From the knowledgeable perspective of 25 years as a criminal lawyer (mostly appeals like murder, rape, robbery, etc.), a former co-editor of Gilbert's Criminal Law & Procedure, and a free lance writer for over a decade, the author writes incisively about the remorseless cop killer described by America's newspaper of record as: ?Perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world.' (Page 1,New York Times, Dec. 19, 2001, the day after a federal court nullified a racially mixed jury's July 3, 1982 unanimous sentence of death.) Mumia Abu Jamal - The Patron Saint of American Cop Killersexposes the Hollywood backed ?Free Mumia! Free All Political Prisoners!? movement's claims of ?racism? in jury selection, ?police frame-up,? and ?police intimidation of defense witnesses? as a transparent fraud. With the same precision and insight he devoted to a three part article in theEast Hampton Independent(andthe Southampton Independent) on the tragic carbon monoxide death of his friend, tennis star, andCBS TVcommentator, Vitas Gerulaitis, Hayden takes the reader through the pre-trial, trial, and absurdly lengthy post conviction proceedings. Now that the chances of the cop hating ex Black Panther ever being executed for killing a 25 year old cop are about the same as his chances of ever being found ?innocent,? Hayden predicts that the middle aged Death-Row prisoner will, like Dr. Martin Luther King's cowardly assassin, racist James Earl Ray, die of old age in a 6 X 9 steel cage in a super max prison somewhere in rural America.Hayden, John is the author of 'Mumia Abu Jamal The Patron Saint of American Cop Killers', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595384747 and ISBN 0595384749.
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