Another one loses in court

Mumia Abu-Jamal goes down:

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal's bid for a new trial in the killing of a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. Abu-Jamal claims prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. A Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Jamal, who is black, of killing Faulkner, who was white, after the patrolman pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother during an overnight traffic stop. In another pending court action, prosecutors are seeking to have Abu-Jamal's death sentence reinstated.