Mumia Abu Jamal

From the knowledgeable perspective of 25 years as a criminal lawyer (mostly appeals like murder rape robbery etc.) a former co-editor of Gilbert's Criminal Law & Procedure and a free lance writer for over a decade the author writes incisively about the remorseless cop killer described by America's newspaper of record as: </P><P>Perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world. (Page 1 <I>New York Times</I> Dec. 19 2001 the day after a federal court nullified a racially mixed jury's July 3 1982 unanimous sentence of death.) </P><P><I> Mumia Abu Jamal - The Patron Saint of American Cop Killers</I> exposes the Hollywood backed Free Mumia! Free All Political Prisoners! movement's claims of racism in jury selection police frame-up and police intimidation of defense witnesses as a transparent fraud. </P><P>With the same precision and insight he devoted to a three part article in the <I>East Hampton Independent</I> (and <I>the Southampton Independent</I>) on the tragic carbon monoxide death of his friend tennis star and <I>CBS TV</I> commentator Vitas Gerulaitis Hayden takes the reader through the pre-trial trial and absurdly lengthy post conviction proceedings. </P><P>Now that the chances of the cop hating ex Black Panther ever being executed for killing a 25 year old cop are about the same as his chances of ever being found innocent Hayden predicts that the middle aged Death-Row prisoner will like Dr. Martin Luther King's cowardly assassin racist James Earl Ray die of old age in a 6 X 9 steel cage in a super max prison somewhere in rural America. </P>