(Reprinted from Prison Radio)
The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Five & Maureen Faulkner have lost this fight. But the rematch is going to be brutal.
On December 16th the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
dismissed the FOP’s King’s Bench petition to remove Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner as the prosecutor in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s criminal case and replace him with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Mumia is contesting his first-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. His default opponent in court is the lead prosecutor for the city of Philadelphia: DA Larry Krasner. The recently-dismissed King’s Bench petition argued unsuccessfully that Krasner is biased in favor of Mumia and should be removed.
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attorney general shapiro. attorney general, good to see you again. thank you. the outrage you and i talked so many times about this. it never gets better. there is not a day in which i think, ah, equifax is doing the right thing. well, first off, ali, it s good to be back with you and stephanie. i m glad i m a whole alternate general. i m also an attorney general who is just so offended, offended by the conduct of equifax since the breach. i m offended by this golden parachute that this ceo gets to walk away with after he literally, on his watch, lost the data of 143 million americans, including 5.5 million pennsylvanians. here s the question. it s offensive, but is it illegal? i take you back to the financial crisis, the thousands of americans who were so angry with the banking industry, and you
joining me now is jash shapiro, pennsylvania s attorney general. he has joined 15 of his kliegs in a statement condemning the travel ban. so attorney general shapiro, this is a written letter that is very sharply worded. you signed it. it calls this executive order quote unconstitutional, un-american, and unlawful. tell us why you sign it and what s next for you and for the other attorneys general. the wake of the president s executive order we found crisis and chaos in our communities. we saw a federal overreach. at the philadelphia airport a family who was trying to be united with their family from allentown, pennsylvania they had all of their proper paperwork in order, and they were sent away. i know general herring in virginia was at dulles airport and witnesses similar things. and general healey at logan and eric shiederman in new york. we got together and recognized