Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row since he was convicted of murdering Police Officer Daniel
Faulkner in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981. This conviction came after a very one-sided
story was presented to a stacked jury by a corrupt prosecutor before a racially biased judge. The
evidence in this report is not mere accusations, but a corroborated and documented account of the
events that unfolded because of the criminality of the most notorious police force in the United States.
It also serves o expose the people who, either deliberately or out of fear, helped to keep the truth
hidden about the innocence of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
EVIDENCE OF THE REAL KILLER
The man who shot and killed Officer Faulkner, along with another man-Kenneth Freeman, is Arnold
Beverly. Beverly was hired by the mob and corrupt elements in the center city Philadelphia Police
Department to shoot and kill Faulkner. Here is his confession:

I, ARNOLD R. BEVERLY, state that the following facts are true and correct:
I was present when police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed in the early morning hours of
December 9, 1981 near the corner of Locust and 13th Streets. I have personal knowledge that Mumia
Abu-Jamal did not shoot police officer Faulkner.
I was hired, along with another guy, and paid to shoot and kill Faulkner. I had heard that Faulkner was
a problem for the mob and corrupt policemen because he interfered with the graft and payoffs made to
allow illegal activity including prostitution, gambling, drugs without prosecution in the center city area.
Faulkner was shot in the back and then in the face before Jamal came on the scene. Jamal had
nothing to do with the shooting.
Before the shooting, I was shown a picture of Faulkner and told that Faulkner was supposed to check
something at Johnny Ds (at 13th and Locust) sometime in the early morning hours of December 9.
Two of us were hired for the shooting so that either of us could take the opportunity to make the hit,
get the job done, and leave. The other guy gave me a .38 caliber policeman’s special and I was
also carrying my own .22 caliber revolver.
I waited at the speedline entrance at the north east of corner of Locust and 13th at the parking lot, I
was wearing a green (camouflage) army jacket. The other guy waited on the south side of Locust
street east of 13th Street towards Camac Street.
While I was waiting at the speedline entrance for Faulkner to arrive at the location, I saw police officers
in the area. Two undercover policemen were standing on the west side of 13th north of Locust. Also a
uniformed police officer was sitting in a car in the corner of the parking lot, They were there while the
shooting of Faulkner took place. I was not worried about the police being there since I believed that
since I was hired by the mob to shoot and kill Faulkner, any police Officers on the scene would be
there to help me.
After a while I saw Faulkner get out of a small police car parked behind a VW parked on Locust
Street, east of 13th St. Faulkner was alone. He got out of the police car end went up to the vw.
I heard a shot ring out coming from east on Locust Street, Faulkner fell on his knee on the sidewalk
next to the VW. I heard another shot and it must have grazed my left shoulder. I felt something hard
on my left shoulder. I grabbed at my shoulder and got blood on my hand.
I ran across Locust Street and stood over Faulkner, who had fallen backwards on the sidewalk, I shot
Faulkner in the face at close range. Jamal was shot shortly after that by a uniformed police officer who
arrived on the scene.
Cop cars came from all directions. Foot patrol also arrived. I saw a white shirt getting out of a car in
the middle of the 13th & Locust intersection just as I was going down to the speedline steps.
I left the area underground through the speedline system and by prearrangement met a police officer
who assisted me when I exited the speedline underground about three blocks away. A car was waiting
for me and I left the center city area.
The foregoing is stated subject to the penalties of 18 Pa.C.S. Section 4904 relating to unsworn
falsification to authorities.
ARNOLD R. BEVERLY 6-8-99

This is not the first time that someone was reported wearing a green army jacket. On the scene that
morning, Mumia was wearing a red and blue quilted waist-length jacket (property receipt 854920) and
William Cook was wearing a dark blue nehru style coat with silver buttons (property receipt 854919).
According to William Cook's affidavit, Kenneth Freeman was a passenger in his Volkswagon and
was wearing a green army jacket. William Singletary testified during the 1995 PCRA that the
passenger of the VW was wearing a long army overcoat and was the shooter (8/11/95; 235).
As well, two police officers on the scene and two prosecution witnesses also reported that a person or
people was/were wearing (a) green jacket(s) at the scene of the incident. Police Officer James Forbes
along with another Officer was first on the scene. In his initial statement on 12/9/81, Forbes stated that
Mumia...was wearing a green jacket. I could see blood on the right side of his shirt. In his
statement dated 12/16/81, Forbes continued to claim that, upon arrival at the scene, he saw a black
male (purportedly Mumia) sitting at the curb wearing a green army jacket.
The second officer to buttress the story of a black male in a green army jacket was Officer Trombetta.
In his initial statement on 12/9/81, he said while we had him sitting in the waiting room he said he
was shot. That was when we discovered he was bleeding. He had one of those heavy green army
jackets on and you couldn't see any blood at the time because of it. In his second interview
dated 12/17/81, he again suggests Mumia was wearing a green army jacket.
The two prosecution witnesses were Albert Magilton and Michael Scanlon. In 1995, Magilton wrongly
described Mumia as wearing a green army field jacket when he was questioned by defense
investigator Michael Newman. Scanlan described the driver of the VW as wearing a green army coat
(6/25/82; 8.26), but he was confused about who shot Officer Faulkner. When he was asked to identify
if the shooter was in the back of the police wagon, he said he thought that the man whom he saw was
the man who was driving the VW (6/25/82; 8.46).
The confusion about the green jacket becomes much clearer when aligned with Arnold Beverly’s
statement and the witnesses' descriptions of the incident. Beverly stated that he crossed south
on Locust St. from the speed line entrance in front of the infamous parking lot and finished the job he
was sent to do. Cynthia White and Albert Magilton, both were prosecution witnesses and stated that
they saw a black male crossing the street from the same direction moments before shooting broke
out. Mumia's own recollection of the events that unfolded 12/9/81 in an affidavit released in spring
of 2001, places him in his cab parked on 13th St. adjacent to the parking lot, not in it, writing in his
fares log book when the shooting broke out. He was not facing the scene, so he used his mirrors to
scan the scene. This is when he spots his brother, goes to the scene, and is shot by a uniformed
Police Officer who was already there.
There is even more corraborating evidence to Arnold Beverly's detailed confession. An entry in the
medical examiner's log recorded a statement made by Sergeant Westerman, a homicide detective, to
an investigator in the Medical examiner's office by the name Stefan Makuch at about 9am on 12/9/81,
just 5 hours after the shooting. Amongst other things, Sgt. Westerman was asked by Makuch about
who had shot Mumia. According to Makuch, Westerman first consulted other officers in the homicide
unit before answering "the assailant himself was shot subsequently by arriving reinforcements."
At an in-camera hearing during the course of the trial on 6/28/82, Sgt. Westerman denied that he had
said by whom Mumia was shot (6/28/82; 18-19). This evidence plainly suggests that the general belief
of the Homicide office some 5 hours after the shooting was that Mumia was shot by arriving officers.
This evidence was excluded from the original trial of an in-camera session: so Beverly could not have
been aware that this evidence existed when he came forward and confessed.
At the trial, Dr. Hoyer, the Assistant Medical Examiner, shed even more light to the dark, vagueness
of the prosecution's tale, although not brought to light until recent times. He gave testimony to the fact
that the injury sustained to Faulkner's left knee was consistent to Faulkner falling on his left knee as
was described by Beverly's affidavit (6/25/82; 181). It should be noted here that the prosecution
described Faulkner being shot in the back and then he spun around to fire off one shot at Mumia as he
fell backwards onto the pavement.
The police radio transcripts also serve great purpose in giving detail as to the inconsistency of the
scenario presented by prosecution at the 1982 trial. Faulkner's call for a wagon, his last radio
transmission came at 3:51:08.  At 3:52:27, a report comes in from police officers Wakshul and
Trombetta that a passer by reported a police officer had been shot. Officers Shoemaker and Forbes
radio in from the scene at 3:52:36. Flashes and enquiries come over the airwaves that the suspects
had fled the scene and they had the police officer's gun. Some fourteen minutes after the arrival
transmition of Officer Forbesand Shoemaker, the first report came in that the suspect was in custody
and that the weapon was recovered at the scene.
It is easy to see how this reaction could happen when it is testified to by Alphonso Giordano at the
suppression hearing that a white cab driver (by default, Robert Chobert, a prosecution witness) stated
that "the man that shot the policeman ran away, and he was a MOVE member" (6/1/82; 70). William
Singletary also told Highway Patrol Officer Vernon Jones about the shooter having fled the scene.
When the information is compiled of the police discussing a shooter wearing a green army jacket,
when the police radio is reporting a shooter has fled the scene, and when a homicide detective is
recanting his statement about who shot Mumia, the question begs to be answered: Why would the
police have the need to switch up so much and what were they trying to hide?
A police officer is dead and his fellow officers are making screw up after screw up in the investigation.
It is apparent that Beverly's statement is true: Center City police were corrupt and there were police on
the scene when Daniel Faulkner, their fellow officer, was executed. It wouldn't be the first time or the
last time Philadelphia's men in blue would be accused, indicted, or convicted for corruption.
Weinglass and Williams sabotage the case
It is one thing to be set up by strangers; it is quite another to be betrayed by those you trust. When
there is a man whose very life is on the line, who has mountains of evidence not only pointing to, but
proving his innocence, there is but one defense: Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. Indeed, expose the
biased nature of the railroded trial, expose the lies of a corrupt police force and city judiciary, expose
the incopetence of court-imposed representation, but say the man is innocent!
To Mumia's face, to all of his supporters, to the family and loved ones, Weinglass and Williams
claimed belief in his innocence, but their JOB was to convey it and offer it's proof to the courts.
Instead, in the last acts that Williams claims to be in defense of Mumia, a book was published...
Executing Justice. This book was so harmful to Mumia that those who quote its pages most are in the
District Attorney's office, the office of the Fraternal Order of Police, and most unfortunately, in the
decisions denying the acceptance of the explosive offer of proof, Arnold Beverly's confession, by the
appelate judges as to why they deny relief for Mumia in light of these - to the public - new revelations.
The book has worked as a tool of the state, the exact opposite of what Williams purports its purpose
to have been. There is little confusion as to why it is so valuable to the prosecution after reading just
this small portion of the introduction:
"Ah, ambiguity, West's proclaimation (of Mumia's innocence) begs the question: is Mumia's stature as
a writer, the 'truth' of his message, unworthy of attention if he is guilty of firing a bullet into the brain of
a young police officer? Does guilt for such an act necessarily muffle this voice for social justice? Or
can such a guilty man nonetheless still speak to us, clearly and credibly? Indeed, even if his guilt
somehow justifies extinguishing his right to remain alive, does it extinguish the worth of his message?
Does Mumia's worthiness, in short, as a voice for the voiceless depend upon his innocence? If so,
why?" Daniel R. Williams, Executing Justice (St. Martin's Press, 2001).
From cover to cover, it only expresses assumptions, for the author of this book, along with Weinglass,
failed to get one important thing from their client in the history of their defense in this case, Mumia's
account of what happened to him on December 9, 1981. They never bothered to find out what he saw,
where he was, or even when he arrived on the scene. The whole case was an assumption. The whole
book was an assumption. Every argument about the events that unfolded 12/9/81 were based on what
they assumed happened. And to make such assumptions when representing a client who sits on
death row, on top of two stayed death warrants, is more than assinign, it is homicidal.
The nature of this book was not disclosed to Mumia. As Williams states in the final pages of
Executing Justice, this was supposedly "to avoid even the insinuation that he (Mumia) had a hand in
it." When Mumia did find out and asked Weinglass if he had known about it, he denied it, but added
that he thought the book would be beneficial for Mumia's plight. Due to the fact that Mumia relied upon
Weinglass and Williams legal guidance, he was unaware that his own legal team was sending him
down stream.
Much of the book contained priveleged information that Mumia had not given authorization for its
release. In an attempt to halt the publication of Executing Justice, Mumia filed a lawsuit based on
many of the innacuracies and misgivings, such as the assumption of how events unfolded 12/9/81
(layed out to the public with detail as fact when Williams had no idea of Mumia's account of what
happened), as well as the breech in the attorney client priviledge (Mumia Abu-Jamal V. St. Martin's
Press and Attorney Daniel R. Williams, USDC (WD PA) Case No. 01-540). The book, however,
suceeded in getting published.
The publishing of Executing Justice was not nearly the only incident that Mumia had to deal with, for
the relationship with the legal team was already detioriorating. The book was merely the final blow.
Even more damning was the "strategy" that was offered to the courts, as many have offered as a
defense for Weinglass and Williams as Mumia's defense counselors. This legal team had knowledge
of Arnold Beverly's existence since they were hired according to Rachel Wolkenstein's affidavit filed by
Mumia's new legal team (Wolkenstein assisted Mumia by investigating leads in the case since the
late 1980's, who later joined Weinglass and Williams around the time of the 1995 PCRA). As William's
stated on page 329 of his book, Weinglass and Williams never intended to further investigate the
information provided by Arnold Beverly, but instead manuevered things from the beginning "to push this
witness on to the trash heap". Mumia however, was lead to believe that it was being further
investigated when it was not.
Beverly's confession was not the only evidence of innocence that had been pushed onto the trash
heap though. They discouraged Mumia from taking the stand at the 1995 PCRA, thus suppressing his
version of the incident and raising suspicion, justifiably, as to why an "innocent man" would fail to
testify in post conviction proceedings when the burden of proof would then fall upon the condemned.
Mumia is a very careful, insightful, and knowledgable defendant. He has not been swayed in his
insistence of innocence. He deals extremely well under pressure. There is no rational expanation as to
why Mumia would be a bad person or witness to put on the stand.
Another witness discouraged from testifying was Mumia's brother, William Cook, who, according to
the prosecution, was the only other person involved in the incident. In 1995, Cook had already given
his account to the defense that both he and his brother had nothing to do with the shooting of Officer
Faulkner and that his friend and business partner Kenneth Freeman or "Poppi", was a passenger in
the Volkswagonand later confided in Cook that he was part of a hit to take out Faulkner. Weinglass
also discouraged Cook from taking the stand. As well, Weinglass told the court that Cook has
"disappeared" because he was fearful of being arrested on outstanding warrants. This was a blatant
lie, Cook and Wolkenstein both state in their affidavits that Weinglass always had contact information
for Cook.
Discouraging witnesses from testifying was not their only trick. They also diverted witnesses whom
they did put on the stand from detailing evidence pointing to Beverly and Freeman as shooters.
William Singletary had given his account of seeing Faulkner get shot and the shooter fleeing the
scene. When Singletary was called to the stand, however, Weinglass told the court that his
recollection of the shooting was innaccurate. Weinglass then proceeded to only question  him about
the police threats and intimidation, nothing more.
Arnold Howard testified in 1995 that he loaned his driver's license aplication to Kenneth Freeman on
12/9/81. That license was found on Officer Faulkner's person. Weinglass had alredy discovered that
Howard and Freeman had been detained and that Cynthia White picked Feeman out of a line up twice.
But Weinglass never questioned Howard about this on the stand.
Why would Weinglass and Williams choose to avoid presenting direct evidence that Freeman was
involved? Why would they not get an affidavit from Beverly if it could free their client? They were fearful
for their lives. In Wolkenstein's affidavit , along with an investigator who worked briefly on the case
before the 1995 PCRA by the name of Mike Newman, it was revealed that Weinglass had received a
death threat from Ron Freeman, Kenneth Freeman's brother, that he would be "dead meat" if he
pursued evidence that Freeman was a shooter. This death threat came from the warden's office of the
prison where Ron Freeman was incarcerated.
It also does not take a rocket scientist to understand that a proven corrupt police force involved in an
assassination of a fellow officer would go to great lengths to hide what they'd done. It was very clear to
many of the individuals who are close to Mumia and knew Weinglass that he was scared, to say the
least.
The defense presented by Weinglass and Williams was not a special strategy they comprised to get
Mumia a new trial or to overturn his conviction. It was a straegy to go through the motions of a
defense, pray to get him off on a technicality without having to present evidence of innocence, and
hope to save their reputations by presenting evidence of innocence to the public, while hiding it from
the courts. Their strategy was to save their own necks while tying to find some legal loophole to help
their client. They put their own self interests before that of their clients. In a letter to Mumia about
Executing Justice written by Weinglass, he says "He (Dan Williams) also, unbelievably, goes into the
witness who we blocked from coming forward (I really objected to this since it has not surfaced; Dan
thinks it will and this is a pre-emptive strike)".
When the new legal team came in and filed the confession of Arnold Beverly, the "pre-emptive strike
was used against Mumia. That book has done nothing but harm to Mumia. As a matter of fact, it has
proven to be one of the greatest assets the prosecution has had. It is a tool of the state. It has been
used to divide the movement to fee Mumia between those who fight for Mumia and those who fight to
save Weinglass' reputation.
Although indulging in the opportunity it afforded the courts to keep the death machine steadily rolling
on Mumia, they did agree that the book proved Weinglass and Williams to have defaulted their
obligation to their client based on rule 1.8 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct that one
cannot publish materials about a client they are representing. Thus, after that final blow, the legal team
was fired.
Conclusion
Mumia Abu-Jamal was available. In this system, that is all you need to be locked up. On December
9th, 1981, in Center City Philadelphia, being a vocal advocate of justice against police brutality, being
a former Black Panther with an 800-plus-page FBI file, and being an unapolegetic supporter of the
MOVE Organization made Mumia all too tempting of a victim to pin the murder of a cop on, especially
when his brother was the one pulled over at the scene.
Time and time again, Mumia is used as a scapegoat, first by the police, then by the courts, and now
by his own defense representation. He was locked up and framed because the police needed to pin
this murder they stained their hands with blood on. They needed an open and shut case to throw off
the scent of the blood trail. And Mumia is still in jail because two lawyers bit off more than they could
chew and feared for their lives and their quality of living.
The only problem is that when a lawyer takes a client's case, his client is #1. In this case, Weinglass
and Williams had a #1 client and they blew it. Their only strategy was to get your sympathy.

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MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S  STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO  SUPREME COURT
                                    DENIAL FOR NEW  TRIAL

October 4, 1999

It was not unexpected that the Supreme Court would deny my appeal.  The Supreme Court hears only a tiny percent of the cases that are brought before it, roughly 75 out of 7,000 in one semester or a term of the court. I entertained no expectations that mine would be granted. We have to remember that we are working with a conservative court that has worked deciduously in the Bush and Reagan administrations and now in the Clinton administration to narrow the chances of anyone having had their case heard, not just a prisoner on death row. Even the most charitable observer must agree that by virtue of the court taking such a small fraction of the important cases that are filed before it, it is
impossible to ignore the fact that many grave injustices are going unresolved.
Given the tone and tenor of recent Supreme Court opinions there is even
a sense of relief that they didn't grant my third appeal. And the trend is
increasingly in favor of the State, the trend is increasingly to disfavor the
defendant and the accused. Certainly there are exceptions, but that's the
undeniable trend, the expansion of state power and police power in the
retractions of prisoners' rights.
The struggle continued, the same old forces are still at work. Look what
happened when I called into WBAI. I was literally pulled off the air a few weeks ago. The recent Phillip Block debacle reflects too how desperate the state is and their desperation is really an acknowledgement that none of them believed Phil's confession story to begin with. Still we can't forget the old saying that the truth shall set you free. I still believe that. I'd be a fool not to.

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               Nelson Mandela Letter to Former Gov. Thomas Ridge

     Dear Governor:   On humanitarian grounds I urge you to use your power as Governor of the State of Pennsylvania to commute the death sentence imposed upon Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Consitutional Court of South Africa has recently declared that the death penalty is inconsistent w ith the right to life, the right to dignity and the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment as enshrined in the Bill of Fundamental Rights in the South African Constitution, Act No. 200 of 1993.
     In accordance with these views I ask for your compassionate reconsideration of the sentence imposed on Mr. Abu-Jamal.
     Yours sincerely,

     Nelson Mandela
     President of South Africa

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