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Dear Friends:<br><br>
Recently the District Attorney of Philadelphia filed a motion seeking
the<br>
disqualification of all judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third<br>
Circuit, Philadelphia. The matter has been assigned to a special
merits<br>
panel of the court.<br><br>
On Friday, April 13, 2007, we filed the Response of Mumia Abu-Jamal,<br>
Appellee and Cross-Appellant, In Opposition To Commonwealth's Motion
for<br>
Recusal. It is attached. As pointed out in our objection to this<br>
"misplaced and absurd" judicial disqualification
attempt:<br><br>
"Further, opposing counsel should not be permitted through this ploy
to<br>
delay oral argument which is scheduled for May 17, 2007. Mr.
Abu-Jamal<br>
has been on death row for nearly a quarter of a century, and would
like<br>
for his case to be heard as scheduled by this Court."<br><br>
Separately we have submitted a motion seeking an expansion of the
time<br>
allotted for oral argument (Motion for Enlargement of Time for Parties
To<br>
Orally Argue, and for Participation By Amici Curiae). In view of the<br>
complexity of the case, the 30 minutes allotted to each side seems<br>
inadequate. We also ask permission for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
and<br>
the National Lawyers Guild (joined by the National Conference of
Black<br>
Lawyers, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Charles
Hamilton<br>
Houston Institute for Race and Justice of Harvard Law School,
Southern<br>
Center for Human Rights, and the National Jury Project), which have
filed<br>
amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs, to be permitted to argue<br>
assuming additional time is granted.<br><br>
You will be promptly advised upon further developments.<br><br>
With best wishes,<br><br>
Robert<br>
=======<br>
Robert R. Bryan<br>
Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan<br>
2088 Union Street, Suite 4<br>
San Francisco, California 94123<br><br>
Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal<br>
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