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Mumia Abu Jamal Fair Trial
1,254 wordsOn December 9, 1981, Wesley Cook, a. k. a. Mumia Abu-Jamal, was driving his taxi in Philadelphia when he saw that police had pulled his brother over. Jamal stopped to see why his brother was being pulled over. An altercation followed leaving Officer Daniel Faulkner dead and Jamal critically wounded. Jamal is currently on Death Row awaiting execution. Jamal's trial was held in 1981 and since then there has been much controversy about whether the trial was fair or not. Much evidence has recently b...
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O J Simpson Reasonable Doubt
1,392 wordsIn the past every decade has endured an event that has marked history in some way or another. The 30 s marked The Great Depression. The 60 s showed the assassination of President Kennedy. And although the 90 s isnt quite over yet, one of the most memorable events would undoubtedly be the Trial of the Decade The O. J. Simpson murder trial. The drama began and ended in Brentwood, California. Sunday, June 12, 1994, Sydney Simpson, (O. J. s daughter) had a dance recital at Paul Revere Junior High Sc...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Faulkner
5,121 wordsWesley Cook was born in 1954. While he was protesting at a George Wallace for president rally in 1968, several white men attacked him. He claims that two men grabbed him. One kicked his face and skull, while the other kicked him in the groin. As the beating progressed, ? he looked up and saw the two-toned gold-trimmed pant leg of a Philadelphia police officer. ? He yelled for the police, who saw him on the ground being beaten to a pulp. ? A police officer marched over briskly, and kicked him in ...
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Crimes Against Humanity United States Supreme Court
2,769 wordsThe Nuremburg Precedence History will judge these trials wholly by whether the victors themselves adhere to the standards and the law they impose on the vanquished. In judging the vanquished, the victors also judge themselves. (New York Times editorial, May 14, 1946, quoted in Piccigallo, 1979, p. 18). Although they were not without precedent, the Allied trials of war criminals at Nuremberg and elsewhere represented new legal principles and extensions of existing legal principles in an attempt t...
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