US Supreme Court will not Rule on Mumia before January 11

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, December 16,

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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