Mumia Files Challenge To Life Imprisonment Sentence
Rachel Wolkenstein
August 25, 2012
Mumia filed a Post-Sentencing Motion filed by Mumia pro se August 23, 2012 challenging the imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. It was filed in the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division at approximately 4pm after Mumia edited a draft motion during my visit with him earlier. Judge Pamela Dembe clandestinely signed the sentencing order on August 13, 2012, without any notice to Mumia.
This motion was filed on an emergency basis to meet the 10-day jurisdictional time requirements for filing the legal challenge. This will be supplemented by a fuller statement of facts and a Memorandum of Law.
The first issue of this motion is to reverse and declare null and void the clandestine sentencing of Mumia to life imprisonment, which was an attempt to deprive of him of his right to challenge this sentence. Mumia’s motion not only attacks his own sentence to “slow death row,” but makes the constitutional challenge to life imprisonment without parole, solitary confinement for death row inmates and solitary confinement in general. Mumia is fighting with and for the entirety of “incarceration nation.”
Notably, Mumia’s motion concludes with the statement, ”This motion does not waive any issues of arguable merit of innocence or any governmental misconduct in the underlying case.”
In the fight for Mumia’s freedom, Rachel Wolkenstein Click here to read legal brief.
Originally issued as a press release, August 25, 2012.
Rachel Wolkenstein
August 25, 2012
Mumia filed a Post-Sentencing Motion filed by Mumia pro se August 23, 2012 challenging the imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. It was filed in the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division at approximately 4pm after Mumia edited a draft motion during my visit with him earlier. Judge Pamela Dembe clandestinely signed the sentencing order on August 13, 2012, without any notice to Mumia.
This motion was filed on an emergency basis to meet the 10-day jurisdictional time requirements for filing the legal challenge. This will be supplemented by a fuller statement of facts and a Memorandum of Law.
The first issue of this motion is to reverse and declare null and void the clandestine sentencing of Mumia to life imprisonment, which was an attempt to deprive of him of his right to challenge this sentence. Mumia’s motion not only attacks his own sentence to “slow death row,” but makes the constitutional challenge to life imprisonment without parole, solitary confinement for death row inmates and solitary confinement in general. Mumia is fighting with and for the entirety of “incarceration nation.”
Notably, Mumia’s motion concludes with the statement, ”This motion does not waive any issues of arguable merit of innocence or any governmental misconduct in the underlying case.”
In the fight for Mumia’s freedom, Rachel Wolkenstein Click here to read legal brief.
Originally issued as a press release, August 25, 2012.
