Peter Wood, associate provost, Boston University, has this to say about the latest chapter in the increasingly tedious story of convicted Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal:

“[…] we owe Judge Yohn’s decision [to vacate the death sentence] to Antioch College, to NPR, and to all those well-meaning idiots who think it enlightened to doubt that a black man can get a fair trial in America.

In fact, anyone can get a fair trial in America, and ordinary American justice at the level of the police station and the trail court is among the best in the world […]

No, Mumia has not been the victim of injustice. He has been, to the contrary, the beneficiary of the most scrupulous legal system in the world. His race and his political views have been and continue to be irrelevant, except to the extent that he himself deploys them