In denying certiorari for more than 2,000 cases today, the United States Supreme Court keeps Mumia Abu-Jamal from its caseload. Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was recently overturned by a federal court in Philadelphia because of a bad jury instruction, and he was seeking a new trial in his petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. To view […]
Archives for October 2008
O.J. Simpson Conviction Feels like Payback for Some
This past Friday’s conviction of O.J. Simpson in his trial for armed robbery seems to have been overshadowed by attention to the economy, the presidential election and Major League Baseball post-season playoffs. However, that overshadowing neither diminishes public opinion about the case, nor does it reduce the satisfaction it gives to families of Nicole Brown-Simpson […]