I am writing in response to the letter from Jared Doyle in the January 8 edition of The Daily Collegian regarding Mumia Abu-Jamal. It is unfortunate that a student with so little information about the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal would with, "no ifs ands or buts" find Mumia guilty.

To start with Mumia's trial had an unbelievable 29 Constitutional errors. Mr. Doyle states that Mumia has never denied the fact that he killed Officer Faulkner. Besides the numerous interviews in which Mumia declared his innocence, he has also sworn in an affidavit submitted to the court stating that he did not shoot Officer Daniel Faulkner.

According to Mr. Doyle's logic, these denials by Mumia do not count. Mr. Doyle said that Mumia "undoubtedly committed" this crime. Even if Mumia was guilty, which there is little evidence to suggest, using the laws at the time, he should have been released from prison around 1989. The court found pre meditation for the murder, which is needed for the death penalty, from Mumia's affiliation with the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1969 when he was 15 years old.

This is illegal. An award-winning journalist who spoke out against police brutality and injustice sits on death row where the pre mediation for the murder of a police officer was found to be his political affiliation 12 years prior with the Black Panthers ,while a member of the KKK has his sentence reduced.

That seems like an example of institutionalized racism. Did I mention that Mumia's judge has put more people on death row than any sitting judge in the United States? Or that, as of the year 2000, Philadelphia had 126 people on death row, of which 14 are white? I am sorry, Mr. Doyle, but you seem to have no idea what you are talking about.