Mumia Abu-Jamal - Opposition to DA motion for court disqualification

Recently the District Attorney of Philadelphia filed a motion seeking the
disqualification of all judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit, Philadelphia. The matter has been assigned to a special merits
panel of the court.

On Friday, April 13, 2007, we filed the Response of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Appellee and Cross-Appellant, In Opposition To Commonwealth's Motion for
Recusal. It is attached. As pointed out in our objection to this
"misplaced and absurd" judicial disqualification attempt:

"Further, opposing counsel should not be permitted through this ploy to
delay oral argument which is scheduled for May 17, 2007. Mr. Abu-Jamal
has been on death row for nearly a quarter of a century, and would like
for his case to be heard as scheduled by this Court."

Separately we have submitted a motion seeking an expansion of the time
allotted for oral argument (Motion for Enlargement of Time for Parties To
Orally Argue, and for Participation By Amici Curiae). In view of the
complexity of the case, the 30 minutes allotted to each side seems
inadequate. We also ask permission for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and
the National Lawyers Guild (joined by the National Conference of Black
Lawyers, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Charles Hamilton
Houston Institute for Race and Justice of Harvard Law School, Southern
Center for Human Rights, and the National Jury Project), which have filed
amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs, to be permitted to argue
assuming additional time is granted.

You will be promptly advised upon further developments.

With best wishes,

Robert
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Robert R. Bryan
Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, California 94123

Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal

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