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The Mumia Papers (3:25) Reginald Lewis
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:03:24
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Mumia Abu-Jamal is bringing attorneys. Judith L. Ritter, a [could not parce] university law school, and Samuel Spital, NAACP legal defense fund, were granted a court ordered discovery request that forced the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to produce material, long buried in countless boxes. Some labeled, I quote, "legislative files." We gaze, awe-struck, into the deep, dark, [inaudible] of an intrinsically racist mindset in the prosecutor's office under Ronald D. Castille, who used Mumia high profile status and an unjust conviction to lobby a powerful political establishment to pass laws requiring the governor’s to quickly sign death warrants, speed up executions, and providing a blueprint for judges dismantling the protections of U.S. Constitution, and the forcement of case laws for the United States Supreme Court of no effect in Pennsylvania. In July 1991, Deputy District Attorney Gail [inaudible] testified under oath before Congress that, in Philadelphia, no such discrimination in jury selection existed. Tho