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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.[1]

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  1. 87 relations: Albert F. Sabo, Amnesty International, Anthony Joseph Scirica, Arnold Beverly, Arson, Assata Shakur, Associate degree, Associated Press, Autopsy, Bachelor's degree, Batson v. Kentucky, BBC News, Catholic Church, Certiorari, Character evidence, Charter Arms, CNN, Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal, Constitutionality, Contract killing, Court reporter, Criminal justice, District attorney, District Attorney of Philadelphia, Ed Rendell, Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Execution warrant, Federal Premium Ammunition, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Habeas corpus, Ineffective assistance of counsel, Irish people, Jewish World Review, John Africa, Judicial opinion, Jury selection, Legal opinion, Leonard Weinglass, Lethal injection, Locust Street, Los Angeles Times, Lynne Abraham, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal in popular culture, Murder, National Fraternal Order of Police, NPR, Overpressure ammunition, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania courts of common pleas, ... Expand index (37 more) »

  2. 1982 in Pennsylvania
  3. Crimes in Philadelphia
  4. Locust Street
  5. Mumia Abu-Jamal
  6. Pennsylvania state case law
  7. Trials in Pennsylvania

Albert F. Sabo

Albert F. Sabo (December 21, 1920 – May 8, 2002) was an American lawyer and judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal and Albert F. Sabo are Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Anthony Joseph Scirica

Anthony Joseph Scirica (born December 16, 1940) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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Arnold Beverly

Arnold Beverly is a Philadelphia man who rose to prominence during the legal appeals following the 1982 trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal and Arnold Beverly are Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Assata Shakur

Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947), also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist and convicted murderer who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA).

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Associate degree

An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Autopsy

An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death; or the exam may be performed to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Batson v. Kentucky

Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Certiorari

In law, certiorari is a court process to seek judicial review of a decision of a lower court or government agency.

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Character evidence

Character evidence is a term used in the law of evidence to describe any testimony or document submitted for the purpose of proving that a person acted in a particular way on a particular occasion based on the character or disposition of that person.

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Charter Arms

Charter Arms Co. is an American manufacturer of revolvers.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal

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. Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal and Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal are 1982 in Pennsylvania, 1982 in United States case law, 20th-century American trials, crimes in Philadelphia, Locust Street, Mumia Abu-Jamal, murder trials in the United States, Pennsylvania state case law and trials in Pennsylvania.

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Constitutionality

In constitutional law, constitutionality is said to be the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or set forth in the applicable constitution.

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Contract killing

Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people.

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Court reporter

A court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter is a person whose occupation is to capture the live testimony in proceedings using a stenographic machine or a stenomask, thereby transforming the proceedings into an official certified transcript by nature of their training, certification, and usually licensure.

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Criminal justice

Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have been accused of committing crimes.

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District attorney

In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.

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District Attorney of Philadelphia

The office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia is the largest prosecutor's office in the state of Pennsylvania and oversees a jurisdiction that includes more than 1.5 million citizens of both the city and county of Philadelphia.

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Ed Rendell

Edward Gene Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, politician, and author who served as the 45th governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011.

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Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments.

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Execution warrant

An execution warrant (also called death warrant or black warrant) is a writ that authorizes the execution of a condemned person.

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Federal Premium Ammunition

Federal Premium Ammunition is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vista Outdoor, located in Anoka, Minnesota.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Ineffective assistance of counsel

In United States law, ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC) is a claim raised by a convicted criminal defendant asserting that the defendant's legal counsel performed so ineffectively that it deprived the defendant of the constitutional right guaranteed by the Assistance of Counsel Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Jewish World Review

Jewish World Review is a politically conservative, online magazine updated Monday through Friday (except for legal holidays and holy days), which seeks to appeal to "people of faith and those interested in learning more about contemporary Judaism from Jews who take their religion seriously.” It carries informational articles related to Judaism, dozens of syndicated columns written mostly by politically conservative writers, both Jewish and Gentile, advice columns on a number of issues, and cartoons.

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John Africa

John Africa (July 26, 1931 – May 13, 1985), born Vincent Leaphart, was the founder of MOVE, a Philadelphia-based, predominantly black organization active from the early 1970s and still active.

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Judicial opinion

A judicial opinion is a form of legal opinion written by a judge or a judicial panel in the course of resolving a legal dispute, providing the decision reached to resolve the dispute, and usually indicating the facts which led to the dispute and an analysis of the law used to arrive at the decision.

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Jury selection

Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial.

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In law, a legal opinion is in certain jurisdictions a written explanation by a judge or group of judges that accompanies an order or ruling in a case, laying out the rationale and legal principles for the ruling.

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Leonard Weinglass

Leonard Irving Weinglass (August 27, 1933 – March 23, 2011) was a U.S. criminal defense lawyer and constitutional law advocate, best known for his defense of participants in the 1960s counterculture. Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal and Leonard Weinglass are Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

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Locust Street

Locust Street is a major historic street in Center City Philadelphia.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lynne Abraham

Lynne Marsha Abraham (born January 31, 1941) is an American attorney who served as the district attorney of the City of Philadelphia from May 1991 to January 2010. Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal and Lynne Abraham are Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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A polarizing figure, Mumia Abu-Jamal has attracted widespread attention in popular culture. Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal and Mumia Abu-Jamal in popular culture are Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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National Fraternal Order of Police

The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is a fraternal organization consisting of sworn law enforcement officers in the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Overpressure ammunition

Overpressure ammunition, commonly designated as +P or +P+ (pronounced Plus-P or Plus-P-Plus), is small arms ammunition that has been loaded to produce a higher internal pressure when fired than is standard for ammunition of its caliber (see internal ballistics), but less than the pressures generated by a proof round.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania courts of common pleas

In Pennsylvania, the courts of common pleas are the trial courts of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania (the state court system).

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philadelphia City Hall

Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation.

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Philadelphia Police Department

The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD, Philly PD, or Philly Police) is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the County and City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Precedent

Precedent is a principle or rule established in a legal case that becomes authoritative to a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar legal issues or facts.

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Prison officer

A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners.

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Pro se legal representation means to argue on one's own behalf in a legal proceeding, as a defendant or plaintiff in civil cases, or a defendant in criminal cases, rather than have representation from counsel or an attorney.

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R. Seth Williams

Rufus Seth Williams (born January 2, 1967) is a former district attorney of the city of Philadelphia.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Robert Cowen

Robert E. Cowen (born September 4, 1930) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit based in Philadelphia.

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Ronald D. Castille

Ronald D. Castille (born March 16, 1944) served on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 2014 and was chief justice from 2008 to 2014.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Secondary school

A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.

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Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political party in the United States.

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Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an American poet, writer, and professor.

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Southwest Philadelphia

Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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State Correctional Institution – Rockview

The State Correctional Institution – Rockview (SCI Rockview) is a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections prison located in Centre County, Pennsylvania, away from Bellefonte.

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SUNY Press

The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.

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Superior Court of Pennsylvania

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania is one of two Pennsylvania intermediate appellate courts (the other being the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania).

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial System.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC

The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC (formerly Philadelphia Media Network (PMN)) is an American media company.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the flagship hospital of Jefferson Health, a multi-state non-profit health system based in Philadelphia.

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Thomas L. Ambro

Thomas Lee Ambro (born December 27, 1949) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tom Ridge

Thomas Joseph Ridge (born August 26, 1945) is an American politician and author who served in the George W. Bush administration as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003 and as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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Trial de novo

In law, the expression trial de novo means a "new trial" by a different tribunal (de novo is a Latin expression meaning "afresh", "anew", "beginning again", hence the literal meaning "new trial").

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (in case citations, 3d Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, E.D. Pa.) is one of the original 13 federal judiciary districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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William H. Yohn Jr.

William Hendricks Yohn Jr. (born November 20, 1935) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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.44 Magnum

The.44 Remington Magnum, also known as.44 Magnum or 10.9x33mmR (as it is known in unofficial metric designation), is a rimmed, large-bore cartridge originally designed for revolvers and quickly adopted for carbines and rifles.

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1985 MOVE bombing

The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during a standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.

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See also

1982 in Pennsylvania

Crimes in Philadelphia

Locust Street

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Pennsylvania state case law

Trials in Pennsylvania

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_v._Abu-Jamal

Also known as Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal, Daniel Faulkner, Daniel Faulkner Memorial Highway, Daniel J. Faulkner, Danny Faulkner, Murder of Daniel Faulkner, Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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