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Summary: Excellent and truthful coverage of an important case.
Review: This is one of the best sources of information on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case. It details the new evidence that has come out since the original trial, which 20/20 failed to do on their more recent segment on the case. In Sam Donaldson's letter to the prison where Mumia sits, Donaldson said he was working with the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police), and that makes it quite clear that he had no intention of providing a fair and balanced story. 20/20 stole footage from this very video for their segment, and may even be sued for it. Check out a fair treatment that does exactly as the title suggests: makes a case for reasonable doubt.
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Summary: JUSTICE IS A GUARANTEE TO FAIR LIVING
Review: This video is essential for those who believe in justice, its independance and its fairness. In our countries, the USA, France, Great Britain, and a few others, who invented civil rights (Declaration of Independance, Constitution, Bill of Rights, French revolutionary bill of rights or civil rights declaration, etc) we are running into some difficulties in the judicial system : the rights of the defendee, of the defense, the right to a fair trial, the various procedures that are supposed to guarantee these rights, and of course, even in very democratic countries like ours, police brutality leading to suspicious deaths, police mediatization of inquiries and other investigations leading to suicides of suspects (who should be treated as innocent people as long as they are not convicted), abuse of the freedom of the press publishing names and addresses of convicted and sentenced people who have served their sentences and should be henceforward considered as innocent people, leading to lynching and suicides. Some courts start reacting, but slowly. The latest case of the type in France is a so far three week long trial entrusted to a court chaired by a judge that had already taken part in another trial about another set of facts and that had examined, without any witnesses and defense possibilities, the facts now examined by this new trial, and the old trial had actually concluded a verdict of guilt about the facts examined now, yet at the time the facts had been examined illegally (that is to say without any relevance since they were marginal about the case tried at the time, in fact they should not have been examined at all) and with no possibility for the people concerned by those marginal facts to defend themselves (the conclusion of guilt is hence unjustified and the judge in the present case can only be considered as biassed since she had access to information that was not communicated to the present defense team. Luckily the defense asked for the judge to be removed, for the case to be taken away from this court and they won within twenty-four hours. This case should not have been given to this court, due to that prior knowledge of the facts, and the judge should have refused the case for the same reason. Negligence on the side of the judicial authorities who appointed that court for that case, but a lot more than negligence on the part of the judge who knew that she was going against european civil rights and French procedure rules and civil rights. Mumia Aby Jamal is exactly such a case : fabrication of evidence, pressurizing and manipulation of witnesses, insufficient means given to the defense, systematic appointment of the convicting and sentencing judge for the various appeals and other procedures from Mumia : hence this judge was involved in the case, so much and so personally that his further decisions cannot be considered as fair and balanced, unprejudiced and benevolent. Many witnesses contradict one another and at times themselves. There is more than a reasonable doubt and in fair justice if there is any kind of a doubt the accused is supposed to benefit of it, to be the only benefactor of this doubt. None of these guarantees were given to Mumia and this video has to be watched and even shown to young people in schools and colleges to show how justice is supposed to work and how at times it does work. We have here a practical application of the same logic that is behind the beautiful film « The Death of a Mocking Bird ». If lynching seems to be out today, justice is far from being as fair as it should be. And we have to remember that one and only one case of injustice is jeopardizing our fundamental rights and anyone of us may be the victims of such procedures one day. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universites II and IX.
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Summary: Okay, sure
Review: When one watches this video he is granted with something that is not obtained through reading a book or the trial transcripts--facial expressions and body language. It is humorous that all these scumbags, in their arrogance and god-like facades, who are trying to kill Mumia are very nervous on the tape, stuttering, getting lost for words, etc. It almost seemed as if they could not remember the lines they were told to read. I wish I could have rubbed their palms and felt the sweat drip off of them. The prosecuters seemed plastic, talking mannaquins. And those who were in defense of Mumia were calm and collected. I don't know what happened on the night in question; I am not that arrogant to assume so. What I do know is that this man deserves a new trial. If everyone thinks he is guilty and the evidence stacks up against him, then give him the trial he deserves and don't hide anything and justice will be served. That is if you are so certain that he is guilty. The fact that this man has been kept alive for so long and at the same time has not been granted a new trial makes me think that the system is hiding something. This case is something that goes deeper than race for all of you who claim that "Philadelphia has elected many black mayors, just look at Mayor Street." Seeing that it is not the mayor, but the FBI and COINTELPRO--people that have spread misinformation about other radicals such as Abbie Hoffman who exposed the Vietnam War as nothing more than a means of Wall Street to make more blood money--who want Mumia dead, that is a very weak statement that really holds no weight. Mayors are just puppets for those behind the curtains. Mumia deserves a new trial. Why not give it to him if the courts are so convinced he is guilty. What are they scared of? And I am not forgetting Faulkner either. I feel sympathy for his family. Now all of you who want to remember him and should realize that if an innocent man is in jail that means a killer is walking the streets and justice will never be served. Two innocent people would have died from this whole event, not just one. It is the FBI and COINTELPRO who insult Faulkner and his family, not Mumia's supporters. Give him a nre trial. One that is fair an just and has no holes. For similiar cases, study the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the Rosenbergs.
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Summary: A very controversial video!
Review: Why do people rate this video so low? What are they afraid of? Throughout the world there are millions of people who have shown their support for granting Mumia a new trial. Amnesty International, European Parliments, Nelson Mandela, are among many groups and individuals who have submitted statements of support for Mumia or expressed concerns about the fairness of his original trial. Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Mike Farrell, Whoopi Goldberg, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Ed Asner, support Mumia's cause. If Mumia is guilty like some people say then no one will believe him....right. If he is guilty as they say then why are they opposed to a new trial (just to make sure justice was initially correct....especially with such irregularities in the first trial). If he is guilty then a new trial will only enforce that. You'll see: Witnesses that were not allowed, others that were "credible" when bribed or coerced and then later, when they want to tell what really happens, they are now termed "incredible" and are arrested for warrants they never knew they had. Forensic tests that dont match. Evidence disappears. Cops all of a sudden remember a "confession" two weeks later after the death of Officer Faulkner. By all means check out the original transcripts at the late Officer Faulkner's website. You'll see Judge Sabo (the same judge who has presided over every court challenge Mumia has made to appeal his case and was even brought out of retirement for one of Mumias appeals) deny Mumia's constitutional right to represent himself in court (as he felt his state-appointed lawyer, who was inexperienced in capital murder cases, was not capable of representing him). "The choice, as every choice is yours. To fight for freedom or encagement, liberty or slavery, life or death. Spread the word of life far and wide. Talk to friends, read and open their eyes - even to doorways of perception you feared to look into yesterday. Hold your heart open to the truth." -Mumia Abu-Jamal Listen to him speak before you make up your mind. Dont pre-judge Mumia Abu-Jamal on some review on some website....
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