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Mumia: 36 Years Behind Bars
Kyle Fraser, Black Agenda Radio producer
16 Jan 2018
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The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop. The trial of Mumia Abu Jamal was marked by “perjured testimony, false ballistics, false confessions” and a judge that said he would help prosecutors “fry the nigger,” said Gwen Debrow, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home.

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