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                        UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT


                                  Nos. 01-9014 & 02-9001


                                  MUMIA ABU-JAMAL,
                                  a/k/a WESLEY COOK

                                                   Mumia Abu-Jamal,
                                                   Appellant at No 02-9001

                                              v.

                               MARTIN HORN,
                 PENNSYLVANIA DIRECTOR OF CORRECTIONS;
               CONNER BLAINE, SUPERINTENDENT, SCI GREENE;
               DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR PHILADELPHIA COUNTY;
                      THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
                          STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
                                        Appellants at No. 01-9014


                                 (D.C. Civ. No. 99-cv-5089)


                            SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING


                       Present: SCIRICA, Chief Judge,
               SLOVITER, BARRY, AMBRO, FUENTES, SMITH,
          CHAGARES, JORDAN, HARDIMAN and COWEN*, Circuit Judges.

       The petition for rehearing filed by appellee/cross-appellant Mumia Abu-Jamal in

the above-entitled case having been submitted to the judges who participated in the

decision of this Court and to all the other available circuit judges of the circuit in regular


   *As to panel rehearing only.
active service, and no judge who concurred in the decision having asked for rehearing,

and a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular service not having voted for

rehearing, the petition for rehearing by the panel and the Court en banc, is denied. Judge

Ambro would grant rehearing en banc.


                                                  BY THE COURT,


                                                  /s/ Anthony J. Scirica
                                                  Chief Judge

Dated: July 22, 2008
CMD/cc: Robert R. Bryan, Esq.
          Judith L. Ritter, Esq.
          Hugh J. Burns, Jr., Esq.
          Ronald Eisenberg, Esq.
          Christina Swarns, Esq.
           Jill Elijah, Esq.




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