[Ppnews] US Supreme Court will not Rule on Mumia before January 11

[Political Prisoner News]

Michael Schiffman, a leading activist in Heidelberg, Germany, and 
also a member of Journalists for Mumia, generously translated a 
statement Mumia's attorney, Robert Bryan, gave at the International 
Defense Committee in Bremen on December 14, 2009.


Breaking News: No Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Case of 
Mumia Abu-Jamal before January 11, 2010

Dec. 15, 2009 (IVK, Bremen): The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court 
that we feared would come even before the X-mas and New Year holidays 
has been deferred. The U.S. Supreme Court will resume its work not 
before Jan. 11, 2010. We are publishing here the breaking news from 
attorney Robert R. Bryan from Dec. 14, which reached us last night.

Statement by Robert R. Bryan, lead attorney of Mumia Abu-Jamal, San Francisco:

Today, on Dec. 14, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken its last 
decisions for this year, taking X-mas holidays till January 11, the 
day it will officially resume its work.

Surprisingly, in the case of my client Mumia Abu-Jamal the Supreme 
Court hasn't yet taken a decision whether he will live and get a new 
jury trial determing his sentence, or whether he will die under the 
hands of the executioner. Actually, we had won a partial victory last 
year before the U.S. Appeals Court since the federal judges with 
their March 27, 2008 decision held out the prospect of a conversion 
of the death verdict into a life sentence. All the same, Mumia is 
still on death row because the prosecution filed an appeal wit the 
Supreme Court in order to push through his execution. Mumia is now in 
the greatest danger to be executed since his arrest on December 9, 1981.



Robert R Bryan




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