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Discuss “Mumia Promo”

On Tuesday, September 28, at 7:30 pm, the prominent capital attorney Robert Bryan will be speaking on ?Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Journalist?s Struggle Against Political Persecution and the Death Penalty? in the Adamson Wing of Baker Hall. Bryan, the former chairman of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, has recently become the lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist and activist convicted for shooting a Philadelphia policeman in 1981.

?Mumia?s is undoubtedly the most famous death penalty case in the world at the present time,? says David Demarest, the professor emeritus of English who was responsible for bringing Bryan to campus. ?We expect Robert Bryan to give us a clear sense of how justice has failed in his case and...

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