Talk:Arnold Beverly

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If there is a separate article on Arnold Beverly, rather than just a mention on the Mumia page, there should be some info about him as a person, and there's nothing apart from the description of African-American. Does he have criminal record, for instance? Are his Mob associations accepted? Is there any background to support those who disbelieve him? I don't think you can leave an article about a self-accused murderer like this.--Jack Upland (talk) 10:19, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I have seen mentions of a criminal record for Beverly but nothing about his personal life; these could be added to the article if someone wanted to do the research, but his record isn't really important. A mention of whatever the defense team was promising him would be interesting.

A close reading of this article should provide plenty of background to support those who disbelieve him. Certainly the first question for anyone considering his claim of killing Faulkner must be "Interesting, but why why he let Mumia spend 17 years in prison before he confessed?" Beverly's confession and story are of course absurd, and Daniel Wlliams's book Executing Justice (searchable copy at Amazon here) uses that very word where he describes the defense team's attempt to introduce Beverly to the case (pages 328-330). He also calls the Beverly story "insane" and "patently outrageous". --CliffC (talk) 04:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

What could the defence team promise? That they would campaign for leniency??!!! He's confessing to the murder of a police officer. Why would he wait 17 years? Why would he hurry?!

I find no results searching Daniel Williams' book for Beverly. But what does Williams say they promised him? Why does he disbelieve him?--Jack Upland (talk) 10:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

On your questions as to what the defense team could give Beverly to motivate his "confession", I have wondered the same things. Mysteries abound – mostly because we don't know Beverly's history or current situation with regard to the law. Williams doesn't say.

Beverly isn't mentioned by name in the Williams book but is discussed on pages 328-330, where the newest members of the defense team announce the discovery of "yet another 'explosive new witness'", and Williams writes that he was "convinced that bona fide lunacy had set in". He also says that his co-counsel Leonard Weinglass "agreed that the story was insane". This is the point where Williams says he "wasn't about to embarrass myself by running with such a patently outrageous story on the most visible death-penalty case in the world." Best, CliffC (talk) 21:05, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Which reiterates my point, if we are going to have this as a separate article we need more background.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Some info. in wrong article

Perhaps the details concerning Abu Jamal's legal team should be moved to the entry about Abu Jamal. Near the bottom, I had to scroll back up to confirm that I had not returned to the Abu Jamal entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.5.226.78 (talk) 16:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

As indicated above I don't think we need this as a separate article. It's only significant as part of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case.--Jack Upland (talk) 10:44, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

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