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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal was a 1982 murder trial in which Mumia Abu-Jamal was tried for the first-degree murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. A jury convicted Abu-Jamal on all counts and sentenced him to death. Appeal of the conviction was denied by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1989, and in the following two years the Supreme Court of the United States denied both Abu-Jamal's petition for writ of certiorari, and his petition for rehearing. Abu-Jamal pursued state post-conviction review, the outcome of which was a unanimous decision by six judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that all issues raised by him, including the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, were without merit. The Supreme Court of the United States again denied a petition for certiorari in 1999, after which Abu-Jamal pursued federal habeas corpus review. In December 2001 Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed Abu-Jamal's conviction but quashed his original punishment and ordered resentencing. Both Abu-Jamal and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appealed. On March 27, 2008, a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its opinion upholding the decision of the District Court. In April 2009, the case was declined by the United States Supreme Court, allowing the July 1982 conviction to stand. On December 7, 2011, District Attorney of Philadelphia R. Seth Williams announced that prosecutors, with the support of the victim's family, would no longer seek the death penalty for Abu-Jamal. Figures involved Shooting victim Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955 – December 9, 1981): Faulkner was the youngest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, a trolley car driver, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. He dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate's degree in criminal justice while serving in the United States Army. In 1975, Faulkner left the army, worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia Police Department. Faulkner got married in 1979. Aspiring to attend law school and ultimately become a city prosecutor, Faulkner was enrolled in college and working toward earning a bachelor's degree in criminal justice administration when he was shot and killed by Mumia Abu-Jamal. Defense Anthony E. Jackson – Defense counsel at the 1982 trial. Leonard Weinglass – Defense counsel at the 1995 hearing. Rachael Wolkenstein – Defense counsel at the 1995 hearing. Daniel R. Williams – Defense counsel at the 1995 hearing. Prosecution Ed Rendell – Philadelphia District Attorney from 1977 to 1986. DA at the time in question. Philadelphia Mayor 1992–1999. PA Governor 2003–2011. Joseph McGill – Assistant District Attorney for the Commonwealth, prosecutor at the 1982 trial. Ronald D. Castille – Philadelphia District Attorney from 1986 to 1991. Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 1993–present, (Chief Justice 2008–2014). Lynne Abraham – Philadelphia District Attorney from 1991 to 2010. Supervised some aspects of the case. Charles Grant (lawyer) – Assistant District Attorney for the Commonwealth, present at the 1995 hearing. Arlene Fisk – Assistant District Attorney for the Commonwealth, present at the 1995 hearing. Linda Perkins – Assistant District Attorney for the Commonwealth, present at the 1995 hearing. Witnesses Robert Chobert – Cab driver and eyewitness. Testified for the prosecution at the 1982 trial. Cynthia White – Prostitute and eyewitness. Testified for the prosecution at the 1982 trial. Michael Scanlan (witness) – Motorist and eyewitness. Testified for the prosecution at the 1982 trial. Albert Magilton – Pedestrian and witness of part of the events. Testified for the prosecution at the 1982 trial. Dessie Hightower – Testified for the defense at the 1982 trial. Veronica Jones – Prostitute and eyewitness. Testified for the defense at the 1982 trial. Joseph Grimes – Latent Print Examiner for the Identification Unit of the Philadelphia Police Department; testified at the 1982 trial. Priscilla Durham – Security officer at the hospital. Testified for the prosecution. Garry Bell (police officer) – Police officer. Testified for the prosecution. Sonia Sanchez - Poet. Testified as a character witness on Abu-Jamal's behalf. William "Dales" Singletary – Witness. Testified at the 1995 review hearing. Vernon Jones (police officer) – Police officer. Testified at the 1995 review hearing. Robert Harkins – Witness. Testified at the 1995 review. George Fassnacht – Firearms expert, testified at 1995 hearing. Robert Harkens (spelled Harkins in the transcript) – cab driver, eyewitness for the defense at the 1995 hearing. Other figures William Cook – Abu-Jamal's younger brother, street vendor. His VW Beetle was stopped by Faulkner on the night in question. Deborah Kordansky – Potential witness for the defense. Refused to come to court. Kenneth Freeman (W. Cook's partner) – Friend and business partner to William Cook. George Michael Newman – Private investigator. Claimed Chobert had recanted his testimony. Arnold Beverly – Claimed in 1999 to have been hired by the mob to assassinate Faulkner on the night in question. Gary Wakshul – Police officer who accompanied Abu-Jamal to and at the hospital. Arnold Howard – Close friend of Abu-Jamal. His duplicate driver's license application was found on Faulkner's person on the night in question. Terri Maurer-Carter – Court stenographer for 1982 trial. In 2001, made an affidavit claiming Judge Sabo said "Yeah, and I'm going to help them fry the nigger" at the time of the 1982 trial. Kenneth Pate – Stepbrother of Priscilla Durham. Claimed his stepsister told him she did not actually hear what she testified to hearing. Yvette Williams (witness) – In police custody with Cynthia White at the time of the incident. Pamela Jenkins (witness) – Prostitute, police informant. Made a statement in 1997. Timeline 1981, December 9: Faulkner shot and killed by Mumia Abu-Jamal. 1982, June 17 – July 3: Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Convicted and sentenced to death. 1989, March 6: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania considers and denies the appeal of the sentence. 1990, October 1: Supreme Court of the United States denies petition for writ of certiorari. 1995, June 1: Death warrant signed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. Suspended pending review. 1995–6: Post-conviction review hearings. 1998: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled unanimously that all issues were without merit. 1999, October 4: Supreme Court of the United States denied a petition for certiorari against that decision. 1999, October 13: Second death warrant signed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. It was stayed while Abu-Jamal sought habeas corpus review. 2001, December 18: United Sta.... Discover the Commonwealth Court Of Pennsylvania No 50 popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Commonwealth Court Of Pennsylvania No 50 books.