Police widow wants DA Krasner off Mumia Abu-Jamal appeal
PHILADELPHIA - Police widow Maureen Faulkner is trying again to have Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's office removed from the latest appeal over her husband's 1981 traffic stop death.
Faulkner filed a petition Tuesday with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after losing a similar fight in a lower court.
Longtime death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal is now serving a life sentence in Officer Daniel Faulkner's slaying. But he has a chance at another appeal based on a related U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
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Krasner says he found potentially damaging evidence about the prosecution's trial witnesses in newly discovered files. He believes that evidence should be aired in court -- but hasn't said if Abu-Jamal deserves a new trial.
Faulkner wants Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro to take over the appeal. Krasner's office says it has no comment.
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