This is a review only of the "bonus" film "Manufacturing Guilt".
This film is total fantasy. Right at the beginning we are told that Abu-Jamal was a journalist; the reality is that by the time he murdered Officer Daniel Faulkner he was driving a cab for a living, having thrown away a promising career in radio by his failure to distinguish reporting from advocacy.
Judge Yohn did not overturn his death sentence as "illegally imposed". In his 2001 appeal, Abu-Jamal's lawyers raised no fewer than 29 claims; in his minutely detailed two-hundred-and-seventy page judgment, Yohn dismissed all but one of those claims but granted a certificate of appealability for a resentencing hearing. This was a purely technical decision; the only illegality throughout these proceedings has been by the defense from the murder of Daniel Faulkner to the deluge of perjured testimony and fantastic fabrications that continue to this day.
There follows the usual garbage about "innocent" Mumia, how for example blacks were allegedly kept off the jury. To which even Angela Davis might be tempted to reply "So what?" on account of an all-white jury acquitting her in her controversial trial way back in the 1970s.
Anyone who is taken in or tempted to be taken in by this garbage should read the trial transcript, which like all the other transcripts and much else beside can be found on the dedicated Daniel Faulkner website.
Abu-Jamal's 2001 "declaration" of innocence is read here verbatim. The time to make such a declaration was at his trial; he didn't, and neither did his brother William Cook, who witnessed the crime and whose only testimony at the time was "I ain't got nothing to do with this." That is true, but unfortunately for Abu-Jamal, he cannot honestly make the same claim.
This film is total fantasy. Right at the beginning we are told that Abu-Jamal was a journalist; the reality is that by the time he murdered Officer Daniel Faulkner he was driving a cab for a living, having thrown away a promising career in radio by his failure to distinguish reporting from advocacy.
Judge Yohn did not overturn his death sentence as "illegally imposed". In his 2001 appeal, Abu-Jamal's lawyers raised no fewer than 29 claims; in his minutely detailed two-hundred-and-seventy page judgment, Yohn dismissed all but one of those claims but granted a certificate of appealability for a resentencing hearing. This was a purely technical decision; the only illegality throughout these proceedings has been by the defense from the murder of Daniel Faulkner to the deluge of perjured testimony and fantastic fabrications that continue to this day.
There follows the usual garbage about "innocent" Mumia, how for example blacks were allegedly kept off the jury. To which even Angela Davis might be tempted to reply "So what?" on account of an all-white jury acquitting her in her controversial trial way back in the 1970s.
Anyone who is taken in or tempted to be taken in by this garbage should read the trial transcript, which like all the other transcripts and much else beside can be found on the dedicated Daniel Faulkner website.
Abu-Jamal's 2001 "declaration" of innocence is read here verbatim. The time to make such a declaration was at his trial; he didn't, and neither did his brother William Cook, who witnessed the crime and whose only testimony at the time was "I ain't got nothing to do with this." That is true, but unfortunately for Abu-Jamal, he cannot honestly make the same claim.
