Below is a link for the video showing Arnold Beverly confessing to the
murder of Police officer Daniel Faulkner, a murder which has seen
journalist, author and former Black Panther member Mumia Abu-Jamal,
convicted and incarcerated on Death row for over twenty years.
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The video
This video shows Arnold Beverly admitting he was hired to kill Police
Officer Daniel Faulkner because Faulkner "was a problem for the mob and
corrupt politicians, because he interfered with the graft and payoffs made
to allow illegal activity..." The statement indicates that Mumia arrived on
the scene only after the officer was shot contradicting previous accusations
made around the case. This confession suggests that massive police
corruption-thus far covered up-is where the real story lies.
The urgency
A Philadelphia judge refused to resurrect Mumia Abu-Jamal's state appeal
today, rejecting the death-row inmate's argument that he was poorly
represented in his original trial and that new testimony would clear him.
Initially in July of this year, federal district Judge Yohn, who has Mumia's
habeas corpus appeal before him, refused to take the deposition of Arnold
Beverly, despite its obvious relevance in showing that Mumia did not do the
crime for which he's about to be sent to death! Yohn cited the
Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act-a Republican crime bill
signed by Clinton after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe recently ruled that she does not have
jurisdiction over Abu-Jamal's petition for a new trial, scuttling his hopes
for another round of state-court appeals.
Abu-Jamal exhausted the state appeals process two years ago, but a petition
filed in September argued that the defense had new evidence to clear him,
including a confession by a man named Arnold Beverly. Prosecutors argued
that the petition wasn't filed in time and urged Dembe to dismiss it.
In a 1999 affidavit, Beverly claimed he was hired by the mob to kill police
Officer Daniel Faulkner because the 25-year-old officer had interfered with
mob payoffs to police.
But Abu-Jamal's former lawyers, Leonard Weinglass and Daniel R. Williams,
who were fired in May after Williams published a book about the case,
thought the confession was not credible and a federal judge refused to order
Beverly to testify on Abu-Jamal's behalf.
Abu-Jamal argued that he should be entitled to another state appeal because
his former attorneys denied him the right to effective counsel by not
presenting the Beverly confession.
Dembe dismissed the value of the confession.
"Aggrandizing themselves by confessing to participation in high-profile
cases is not unusual for persons," she wrote. "... witnesses who recant and
witnesses who mysteriously appear long after trial are regarded with
suspicion by the courts."
Abu-Jamal's new lawyers asked Dembe to waive a requirement that defendants
request a new trial no more than 60 days after learning new information that
would justify overturning a conviction.
But the district attorney's office argued that the request for a new state
appeal was not filed in time because Abu-Jamal himself knew about the
Beverly petition two years ago.
Abu-Jamal's federal appeal, his last chance to reverse his conviction and
death sentence, is pending.
A former Black Panther and radio journalist, Abu-Jamal was convicted of
shooting Faulkner during the early-morning hours of Dec. 9, 1981, after the
officer pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother in a downtown traffic stop.
Previously the authorities had attempted to put robbery charges on Mumia
when he wasnÃt even in the country when the crime was committed, it seems
they were out to get him.
Celebrities, death-penalty opponents and foreign politicians have since
rallied to Abu-Jamal's cause, calling him a political prisoner and charging
that he was railroaded by a racist justice system.
Newspapers and TV have in general have remained deathly silent on this
critical development and the case in general which by many is regarded as a
political execution.
LIE DETECTOR TEST CORROBORATES ARNOLD BEVERLY'S CONFESSION TO KILLING DANIEL FAULKNER
. . . MUMIA ABU-JAMAL IS INNOCENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 31, 2001
For Information Contact: Marlene Kamish, 412-264-6686
OR Eliot Grossman, 626-943-1945
Results of a lie detector test given to Arnold Beverly corroborate his confession that he shot Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, and Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. This week on Tuesday, May 29, 2001, Mr. Jamal's new legal team filed the affidavits of eminent polygraph expert Charles Honts, Ph. D., who took a polygraph examination of Arnold Beverly. (Dr. Honts is Department Head of the Department of Psychology at Boise State University. He is the noted authority in the field of polygraph examination. With twenty years experience as an expert witness, he has been published extensively in numerous scientific journals. Included with Dr. Honts' affidavits is a 37-page curriculum vitae.)
At the time that Mr. Beverly's declaration was filed earlier this month, the new defense team requested authorization from the district court to depose Arnold Beverly, their own witness. The District Attorney filed objections to the deposition. On Tuesday of this week, the defense filed a response to the District Attorney's opposition to the deposition of Arnold Beverly. The defense response states, "If the District Attorney's Office believed its own representation to the District Court and the media that Beverly's confession is a 'patently outrageous story' and a 'lie,' they would welcome, rather than oppose, being given the opportunity to cross-examine the witness under oath." (A deposition is a sworn statement with a court reporter present that offers both sides the opportunity to question the witness.)
Although Arnold Beverly has admitted to the killing, Mumia Abu-Jamal, an innocent man, remains incarcerated at S.C.I. Greene on death row. The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal is currently pending in a Habeas Corpus action before Judge William H. Yohn in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The defense team has urged Judge Yohn to grant the deposition of Arnold Beverly in their response. # # #
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