Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Pennsylvania's "Revictimization" Statute

 

Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law

Recall the Pennsylvania legislature's passage of the "Revictimization Act" prohibiting any act that "perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim," including seemingly a graduation speech from the inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Abu-Jamal and others have filed a complaint challenging the law in federal court as violating the First Amendment as well as Article 1 §7 of the state constitution.