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Ex-Death Row Inmate Mumia Wins Hearing Over Medical Care

Former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been granted a court hearing over the medical care he's received for hepatitis C and other health problems.

Mumia spent 30 years on death row in the 1981 slaying of a Philadelphia police officer before the sentence was overturned.

The former Black Panther is now serving a life sentence at a state prison in Schuylkill County.

Mumia's lawyers say he was denied proper medical care both in prison and during a hospital stay this year at Geisinger Medical Center.

Lawyers for the defendants say the issues stem from a medical dispute and not any indifference toward Mumia's well-being.

U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani has agreed Tuesday to hear evidence and arguments on the matter on Dec. 18 in Scranton.
 

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