Getting your player ready...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s highest appeals court has rejected a request by convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal for a hearing into his claims that witnesses in his case perjured themselves.
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous ruling saying the former Black Panther and radio reporter waited too long to file a post-conviction appeal in the matter.
Abu-Jamal was convicted of fatally shooting Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. A federal judge in 2001 overturned his death sentence but upheld his conviction.
His case has attracted international notoriety. A separate appeal in the case, regarding claims of racial bias and faulty jury instructions, is pending before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
