Abu-Jamal team releases video of confessor

Abu-Jamal team releases video of confessor. It shows Arnold R. Beverly reading the affidavit in which he says he killed Officer Daniel Faulkner. Prosecutors call it "absurd". Mumia Abu-Jamal's attorneys put a face on the mystery man they say confessed to murdering Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, releasing a 7-minute videotape of Arnold R. Beverly reading his 1999 affidavit.The videotape was filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia as part of Abu-Jamal's federal appeal, and it was released to reporters. Beverly's affidavit contends that he, not Abu-Jamal, fatally shot Faulkner on Dec. 9, 1981.Prosecutors have said the statement is "absurd" and at odds with every other witness on or near the scene when Faulkner was killed.Although filed in federal court, the videotape's legal significance is questionable. Beverly was not speaking under oath, the videotape was not notarized, and, Abu-Jamal attorney Marlene Kamish said, it was made in the last 2 weeks.