PACK THE COURTHOUSE FOR MUMIA!
Judge Tucker has ordered an evidentiary hearing for Wed, January 17, 2018 his order is for the DA’s office to show cause why it should not locate and produce Gayle McLaughlin Bartholdi, Esq. to present testimony regarding the content of the documents of the DA’s office says it cannot locate in reference to her memorandum to Ronald D. Castille on March 27, 1990.
Ronald Castille is a former Philadelphia District Attorney who became a PA Supreme Court judge. He refused to recuse himself when Mumia's case went to the PA Supreme Court despite having been the DA during Mumia's prior appeal.
The Supreme Court has since ruled that behavior unconstitutional in a different case where Castille did the same thing.